Welfare state economics

Author: [British] Bal
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The research findings presented in this book represent the new dynamics in the study of social security and welfare state issues in the contemporary Western economics field, and are at the frontier of the discipline. The book has four distinct features: , it attempts to establish a natural "dialogue channel" and bridge between traditional economic theory and the related issues of the welfare state, integrating these issues so that they can be connected with mainstream economics or the core content of economics to achieve complete unification. Second, it attempts to explain and argue the efficiency of the existence of the welfare state through normative analysis in economics. Third, the book provides specialized empirical and normative analysis of education, particularly public housing policy. Fourth, it employs comparative research methods. The basic economic theories of the welfare state elaborated in the book are not only applicable to all industrialized countries but also to transition countries and many middle-income developing countries.