Bibliograph

Making social spending work, Peter H. Lindert

Type

Label

Making social spending work, Peter H. Lindert

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making social spending work

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1244535550

Responsibility statement

Peter H. Lindert

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns to investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging population, whether migration is a cost or a benefit, and how social spending differs in autocracies and democracies. The book shows that what we need to do above all is to invest more in the young from cradle to career, and shift the burden of paying for social insurance away from the workplace and to society as a whole.--, Provided by publisher

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