LEADER 04057nam 22007092 450 001 9910457185503321 005 20160523130745.0 010 $a1-107-14568-6 010 $a1-107-71368-4 010 $a1-280-43739-1 010 $a0-511-16549-8 010 $a0-511-16625-7 010 $a0-511-16432-7 010 $a0-511-30282-7 010 $a0-511-51071-3 010 $a0-511-16512-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353579 035 $a(EBL)255179 035 $a(OCoLC)171138292 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164905 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144722 035 $a(PQKB)10330596 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511510717 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC255179 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL255179 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120489 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43739 035 $a(OCoLC)824548478 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353579 100 $a20090312d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrowing public $esocial spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century$hVolume 1$iThe story /$fPeter H. Lindert$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-52916-6 311 $a0-521-82174-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $av. 1. Part 1: Overview -- Patterns and puzzles -- Findings -- Part 2: The rise of social spending -- Poor relief before 1880 -- Interpreting the patterns of early poor relief -- The rise of mass public schooling before 1914 -- Public schooling in the twentieth century : what happened to U.S. leadership? -- Explaining the rise of social transfers since 1880 -- Part 3: Prospects for social transfers -- The public pension crisis -- Social transfers in the second and third worlds -- Part 4: What effects on economic growth? -- Keys to the free-lunch puzzle -- On the well-known demise of the Swedish welfare state -- How the keys were made : democracy and cost control. 330 $aGrowing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the nineteenth century? Why did taxes and spending then grow so much, and what are the prospects for social spending in this century? Why did North America become a leader in public education in some ways and not others? Lindert finds answers in the economic history and logic of political voice, population aging, and income growth. Contrary to traditional beliefs, the net national costs of government social programs are virtually zero. This book not only shows that no Darwinian mechanism has punished the welfare states, but uses history to explain why this surprising result makes sense. Contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth. 606 $aGovernment spending policy$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aIncome distribution$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aTransfer payments$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aWelfare economics$xHistory$vCase studies 615 0$aGovernment spending policy$xHistory 615 0$aIncome distribution$xHistory 615 0$aTransfer payments$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare economics$xHistory 676 $a339.5/22 700 $aLindert$b Peter H.$0139647 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457185503321 996 $aGrowing public$947883 997 $aUNINA