Ebook: The Welfare State We’re In
Author: James Bartholomew
- Tags: Welfare state -- Great Britain -- History, Welfare state -- Great Britain -- Evaluation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference, Welfare state, Great Britain
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing
- Language: English
- epub
The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has led to avoidable Read more...