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What is The Welfare State We're In about?
That is the startling claim at the core of this controversial book. Marshalling an extraordinary range of evidence, fully updated for this paperback edition, James Bartholomew summons into the dock each of the sacred cows of the welfare state and subjects them to searching cross-examination: Do welfare benefits cause unemployment? Does the NHS do what was promised? Has state education given better chances to the less well off? What caused the failure of council housing? Does 'broken parenting' matter? Is a poor state pension better than none? And in conclusion, he asks the key question: if the welfare state is so bad, why don't we get rid of it?
- Author
- London Publishing Partnership
- Publisher
- Institute Of Economic Affairs
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781842751619
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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