
The Welfare State as Piggy Bank
This text is about economics and its application to the welfare state. The authors contention is that, contrary to popular opinion, the welfare state exists for reasons additional to poverty relief, reasons arising out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk, and uncertainty.
- Undertittel
- Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State
- Forfatter
- Nicholas Barr
- ISBN
- 9780199246595
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 580 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 10.5.2001
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Antall sider
- 316
