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The welfare state as piggy bank : information, risk, uncertainty, and the role of the state / Nicholas Barr.
LIBRA HB846 .B373 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barr, N. A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare economics.
- Welfare state.
- Risk.
- Uncertainty.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Barr contends that the welfare state exists for reasons besides poverty relief, reasons arising out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk and uncertainty. As a result, he argues, the welfare state is here to stay, since 21st century developments don't address these additional reasons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199246599
- OCLC:
- 46640708
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