Understanding the Cost of Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781447334040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Howard Glennerster

Opis

In the wake of the global financial crash, there is possibly no more pressing question for social policy than what forms of welfare are affordable and how. Clear and accessible, Howard Glennerster's Understanding the Cost of Welfare is unique in offering an authoritative, levelheaded, and nontechnical survey of how economic priorities and pressures affect social policies and what the mechanics of funding services mean in real terms. An updated edition of Glennerster's Understanding the Finance of Welfare, featuring a strengthened comparative dimension in its investigation of these vital services, this book provides more relevant institutional detail than any other text on this topic. Understanding the Cost of Welfare is an important, substantial contribution at a time when neoliberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.

Spis treści

Part One: Principles; The cost of welfare; Market failure and government failure; What to tax. Who to tax. How much to tax; Rationing – who gets what?; Part Two: Service funding; Cash benefits: Pensions; Cash benefits: During working age; Paying for Health Services; Paying for Care; Paying for Education: Schools; Paying for Education: Post school; Shelter; Part Three: The Future; The future.