Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state /

Liberalism and the Welfare State investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare, focusing on Britain, Germany and Japan, each of which had a different tradition of economic thinking and different institutions for welfare provision.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Backhouse, Roger, 1951- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Liberalism and the Welfare State; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I V arieties of Liberalism and the Early Welfare State: United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan; 1 Liberalism and the Welfare State in Britain, 1890-1945; 2 Liberal Economists and the British Welfare State: From Beveridge to the New Right; 3 Ordoliberalism, the Social-Market Economy, and Keynesianism in Germany, 1945-1974; 4 From New Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Japanese Economists and the Welfare State before the 1980s; Part II N eoliberalism and the Changing Understanding of the Welfare State.
  • 5 Between Business and Academia in Postwar Britain: Three Advocates of Neoliberalism at the Heart of the British Business Community6 Neoliberalism, New Labour, and the Welfare State; 7 The Initiative for a New Social-Market Economy and the Transformation of the German Welfare Regime after Unification; 8 Neoliberalism and Market-Disciplining Policy in the Koizumi Reform in Japan; Part III Va rieties of Neoliberalism: International Dimensions; 9 National versus Supranational Collective Goods: The Evolution of Neoliberal Federalism; 10 Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Crisis; Conclusion.