P1 Capitalist Systems

摘要

Barr, Nicholas. Economics of the Welfare State. Fifth edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, [1987 . . . 2004] 2012. Pp. xvi, 386. Paper. ISBN 978-0-19-929781-8. Revised and updated fifth edition explores the purpose and implications of the welfare state in the modern economy, with a special focus on U.K. and European welfare systems. Discusses political theory-social justice and the state; economic theory-state intervention and insurance; problems of definition and measurement; insurance-unemployment, sickness, and disability; consumption smoothing-old-age pensions; poverty relief; strategies for reform; health and health care; school education; and tertiary education. Glossary; author and subject indexes.