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Welfare State, Pensions, Health and Education: v. 6: The Welfare State, Pensions, Health and Education v. 6 Volume 6 ed. Edition
Author(s): Colin Robinson
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2005
Edition: Volume 6 ed.
Language: English
Print length: 308 pages
ISBN-10: 0865975558
ISBN-13: 9780865975552
Book Description
Volume 6 of “The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon” examines the failure of state-supported welfare programs to benefit the people most in need of help. The eight articles and one book in this volume encompass almost forty years of criticism of the welfare state. Seldon argues that the welfare state cannot, in the long run, solve the problem of poverty. It is driven by misguided egalitarian views which make it universalist, providing benefits for the middle classes as well as the poor. Because it finances welfare through taxation, it damages incentives to work. Moreover it diminishes motivations to save and to provide for one’s family as the state appears to take over such responsibilities. Once “free” welfare services are begun they are very difficult to stop. But, says Seldon, permanent state welfare is unnecessary: as people’s incomes rise, most are capable of providing for themselves and their families. In the end, people will revolt against inferior state services and the state will have to retreat.
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Review
Sets out the late Thatcherite guru’s critiques of state-provided social security, directed against the universalist approach of public programmes in which the neediest are supposedly provided with too little and the rest allegedly get more than they need. Purports to explain how state-run benefits, such as national pensions and healthcare, in the author’s view suppress innovation, diminish personal choice, undermine personal responsibility and end by providing what Seldon saw as mediocre services.
International Social Security Review April 2006
About the Author
Colin Robinson was a business economist for 11 years. He was then appointed to the Chair of Economics at the University of Surrey in Guildford where he founded the Department of Economics and is now Emeritus Professor. For many years he has been associated with the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, and from 1992 to 2002 he was the IEAs Editorial Director.
Welfare State, Pensions, Health and Education: v. 6: The Welfare State, Pensions, Health and Education v. 6 Volume 6 ed. Edition
Author(s): Colin Robinson
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2005
Edition: Volume 6 ed.
Language: English
Print length: 308 pages
ISBN-10: 0865975477
ISBN-13: 9780865975477
Book Description
Volume 6 of “The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon” examines the failure of state-supported welfare programs to benefit the people most in need of help. The eight articles and one book in this volume encompass almost forty years of criticism of the welfare state. Seldon argues that the welfare state cannot, in the long run, solve the problem of poverty. It is driven by misguided egalitarian views which make it universalist, providing benefits for the middle classes as well as the poor. Because it finances welfare through taxation, it damages incentives to work. Moreover it diminishes motivations to save and to provide for one’s family as the state appears to take over such responsibilities. Once “free” welfare services are begun they are very difficult to stop. But, says Seldon, permanent state welfare is unnecessary: as people’s incomes rise, most are capable of providing for themselves and their families. In the end, people will revolt against inferior state services and the state will have to retreat.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Sets out the late Thatcherite guru’s critiques of state-provided social security, directed against the universalist approach of public programmes in which the neediest are supposedly provided with too little and the rest allegedly get more than they need. Purports to explain how state-run benefits, such as national pensions and healthcare, in the author’s view suppress innovation, diminish personal choice, undermine personal responsibility and end by providing what Seldon saw as mediocre services.
International Social Security Review April 2006
About the Author
Colin Robinson was a business economist for 11 years. He was then appointed to the Chair of Economics at the University of Surrey in Guildford where he founded the Department of Economics and is now Emeritus Professor. For many years he has been associated with the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, and from 1992 to 2002 he was the IEAs Editorial Director.
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