Can the Welfare State Survive?

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a burden on wealth creation which can no longer be afforded in an ever more competitive global economy. There are calls for it to be dismantled altogether.
 
In this incisive book, leading political economist Andrew Gamble explains why western societies still need generous inclusive welfare states for all their citizens, and are rich enough to provide them. Welfare states can survive, he argues, but only if there is the political will to reform them and to fund them.

List of contents

* Introduction
* 1. The life and times of the welfare state
* 2. The battle of ideas
* 3. Four challenges
* 4. A future for the welfare state
* Further reading

About the author

Andrew Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Queens¿ College, Cambridge

Summary

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response.

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"This is an incredibly useful book, on a subject that could not be more important."
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Product details

• Authors: a Gamble, Andrew Gamble, Andrew (University of Sheffield) Gamble, Gamble Andrew
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780745698748
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-9874-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Global Futures; Global Futures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Fürsorge, Politikwissenschaft, Sozialstaat, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Political Science, Politische Ökonomie, Economics, Social Policy & Welfare, Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt, Political Issues & Behavior, Politische Fragen u. politisches Verhalten, Political Economics, Welfare & benefit systems, Fürsorge u. Zuwendungen