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Title

A life of one's own : individual rights and the welfare state / David Kelley.

Author

Kelley, David, 1949-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute ; [Lanham, Md.] : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c1998.

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Description

vii, 176 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

David Kelley subjects the institutions of the contemporary welfare state to sustained and withering criticism. A Life of One's Own is a devastating refutation of the flawed concept of "welfare rights." Kelley presents empirical evidence of the welfare state's effects on behavior, historical research on the origins of the welfare state (and on what it displaced), and philosophical clarification of such core ideas as freedom and rights. After a careful examination of the various arguments made on behalf of welfare rights, Kelley concludes that "the concept of welfare rights is invalid."

Subject

• Welfare state > Moral and ethical aspects
• Public welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
• Objectivism (Philosophy)
• United States > Social policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The end of welfare as we know it? -- What is a welfare right? -- The emergence of welfare rights -- Economic freedom and economic risk -- Welfare and benevolence -- Community and contract.

ISBN

• 1882577701 (cloth)
• 188257771X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98037024^

OCLC

39724151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library