
Liberalism and the Welfare State
Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State
By: Roger E. Backhouse (Editor), Bradley W. Bateman (Editor), Tamotsu Nishizawa (Editor), Dieter Plehwe (Editor)
Hardcover | 14 September 2017
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This volume explores the early history of welfare thinking from the British New Liberals of the early twentieth century, German Ordoliberals and post-war Japanese Liberal economists. It delves into arguments about neoliberalism under British Conservative and New Labour governments, after German reunification, and under Koizumi in Japan. Given the importance of both international policy collaboration and international networks of neoliberal economists, this volume also explores neoliberal ideas on federalism and the responses of neoliberal think tanks to the global financial crisis.
Liberalism and the Welfare State provides a comparative analysis of economists' attitudes to the welfare state. Notwithstanding the differences, in each country support emerged very early on for social minimum standards, but strong disagreements within each country quickly developed. The result was divergence, as the debates shaped different welfare regimes. More recently, the strong impact of efficiency related critiques of welfare regimes has crowded out more nuanced and complex discussions of the past. This volume provides a reminder that neither liberalism nor economic ideas in general are inimical to well-designed welfare provision. The ongoing debate on economics and welfare can be greatly improved by way of stronger consideration of different lineages of both liberal and neoliberal lines of economic thought.
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ISBN: 9780190676681
ISBN-10: 019067668X
Published: 14th September 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 248
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 16.6 x 24.3 x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.5
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