Wealth and welfare states : is America a laggard or leader? / Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding.
By: Garfinkel, Irwin
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Contributor(s): Rainwater, Lee | Smeeding, Timothy M.
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: ix, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199579303 (hbk.); 019957930X (hbk.); 9780199579310 (pbk.); 0199579318 (pbk.).Subject(s): Welfare state | Welfare state -- United StatesDDC classification: 361.65 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 361.65 G18 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003713419 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why all rich nations have large welfare states -- The size, nature, and universality of welfare state transfers -- How welfare state programs redistribute income, reduce poverty and inequality, build and sustain human capital, and promote opportunity -- A short American-centric history of welfare state programs and outcomes -- Explaining American exceptionalism : laggard in public relief and social insurance : leader in education -- Explaining US divergence in the last quarter of the twentieth century : the long swing right -- The future of the American welfare state.
"This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations, and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET.
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