Is America a Laggard or Leader? Garfinkle, Irwin Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Oxford University Press 2010 monographic 1st en English

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256p 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.It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has been, a welfare state laggard. This book shows that all rich nations, including the United States, have large welfare states because the socialized programs that comprise the welfare state-public education and health and social insurance--enhance the productivity of capitalism. In public education, the most productive part of the welfare state, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States was a leader. Economic growt American Walfare State NONE9780199579310 Podomoro University Digital Library Wealth_%26%2338%3B_walfare_state.jpg.jpg 730 2016-05-03 15:15:25 2016-05-03 15:15:41 machine generated