The Republican Welfare State (Yet Again)
The Republicans are expanding the welfare state almost as much as they are increasing the warfare state. In a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chief actuary Richard Foster predicts that the federal government ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919-2004
 Book Description: In the first ever comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe, Inglot examines the highly unusual evolution of the region's social policies, tracing alternating periods of growth [... more]
$95.00
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Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America
One of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection and how these systems have been affected by the recent processes of globalization and democratization. The [... more]
$60.00
eBooks |
Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income [... more]
$120.00
eBooks |
The Welfare State East and West
A unique, comparative examination of the different ways in which modern democratic societies provide welfare today, these essays focus on the welfare strategies and experiences of the U.S., Japan, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, and Israel. While [... more]
$81.00
eBooks |
Wither The Welfare State (research Monographs / ...
Wither The Welfare State (research Monographs / Institute Of Economic Affairs) [... more]
$117.38
A1 Books |
What the Change in Germany Means
For those who like to entertain themselves with the workings of the "political process," these are fascinating times in Germany. In the country which is one of the last survivors of the classic European welfare state and, arguably, the one with [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Consumerism: A Defense
You would think that smart intellectuals would realize that no such animal as capitalism exists in the USA or anywhere else. In America we have a welfare state, a highly regulated, even regimented economy, which, admittedly, is relatively more ... [... more]
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Environmentalism Without Government
A free market, capitalist, exchange, political, economic system is far more environmentally friendly than any statist system, including the welfare state, socialism (whether democratic or centrally planned), or fascism. To demonstrate this, I ... [... more]
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Sweden: Poorer Than You Think
One of the enduring myths of the "Third Way" welfare state is that a nation as a whole can have a high standard of living--even if no one really has to work--as long as government transfers massive amounts of wealth from those who are well off [... more]
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Man vs. the Welfare State - Henry Hazlitt - Mises Institute
In America today, most of the older generation - and many of the young - stand appalled at the nihilism of the self-styled Now Generation and its demands for unattainable reforms, or merely for the sheer destruction of whatever is ... [... more]
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The Meltdown of the German Welfare State
For a few years now I have been awaiting the "German Winter of Discontent," akin to the situation in the UK prior to the 'Thatcher Revolution' when household waste piled up in the streets of London because the garbage men were on strike and ... [... more]
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