Gamble Can the Welfare State Survive?

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9877-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Global Futures

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a burden on wealth creation which can no longer be afforded in an ever more competitive global economy. There are calls for it to be dismantled altogether.
In this incisive book, leading political economist Andrew Gamble explains why western societies still need generous inclusive welfare states for all their citizens, and are rich enough to provide them. Welfare states can survive, he argues, but only if there is the political will to reform them and to fund them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamble, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction
* 1. The life and times of the welfare state
* 2. The battle of ideas
* 3. Four challenges
* 4. A future for the welfare state
* Further reading

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Queens? College, Cambridge