Research Catalog

Title

Wealth and welfare states : is America a laggard or leader? / Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding.

Author

Garfinkel, Irwin.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rainwater, Lee.
• Smeeding, Timothy M.

Description

ix, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations, and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Welfare state > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-238) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Why All Rich Nations Have Large Welfare States -- 3. The Size, Nature, and Universality of Welfare State Transfers -- 4. How Welfare State Programs Redistribute Income, Reduce Poverty and Inequality, Build and Sustain Human Capital, and Promote Opportunity -- 5. A Short American-centric History of Welfare State Programs and Outcomes -- 6. Explaining American Exceptionalism: Laggard in Public Relief and Social Insurance - Leader in Education -- 7. Explaining US Divergence in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century: The Long Swing Right -- 8. The Future of the American Welfare State.

Call Number

JFE 10-3980

ISBN

• 9780199579303 (hbk.)
• 019957930X (hbk.)
• 0199579318 (pbk.)
• 9780199579310 (pbk.)

LCCN

2009938814

OCLC

444384346

Author

Garfinkel, Irwin.

Title

Wealth and welfare states : is America a laggard or leader? / Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-238) and index.

Added Author

Rainwater, Lee.

Smeeding, Timothy M.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-3980