Welfare or welfare state? : contradictions and dilemmas in social policy /

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Author / Creator:Marsland, David.
Imprint:New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Description:xx, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2412378
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ISBN:0312129203 (cloth)
0312129211 (paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Baroness Thatcher
  • 1. Paradise Mislaid: the Welfare State as a Failed Utopia
  • 2. The Contradictions of State Welfare: Philosophical and Theoretical Incoherence
  • 3. Who Needs the Welfare State? Relative Poverty as Absolute Prosperity
  • 4. Bankrupting Britain: The Costs of the Welfare State
  • 5. Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Inhumanity: The Inefficiency of the Welfare State
  • 6. Moral Hazards, Welfare Dependency and the Underclass: The Welfare State as an Enemy of society
  • 7. The Benefits of Consumer Sovereignty: Trusting the Market
  • 8. Towards the Disestablishment of State Welfare: A Free Market in Real Welfare
  • 9. A Programmed for Special Needs: Effective Social Assistance for the Helpless
  • 10. After the Welfare State: Real Welfare in a Free Society.