The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State

ISBN-13: 9780199246595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Nicholas Barr

Opis

Barr contends that the welfare state exists for reasons besides poverty relief, reasons arising out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk and uncertainty. As a result, he argues, the welfare state is here to stay, since 21st century developments don't address these additional reasons.

Recenzje

Barr's book can be strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in the development of social policy ... Excellent and timely.

O autorze

Nicholas Barr has a BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is Reader in Economics at the LSE, the author of numerous books and articles on the economics of the welfare state and the finance of higher education including "The Economics of the Welfare State" (OUP, 3rd edn, 1998) and "Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe" (OUP, 1994), and a member of the editorial board of the "International Social Security Review".