LEADER 04710nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820897803321 005 20230120060544.0 010 $a9786611944186 010 $a0-19-152989-3 010 $a1-281-94418-1 035 $a(CKB)2560000000293873 035 $a(EBL)3052774 035 $a(OCoLC)310913359 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000090175 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119350 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000090175 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098942 035 $a(PQKB)10285411 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3052774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL194418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7033474 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000293873 100 $a20010326d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe welfare state as piggy bank$b[electronic resource] $einformation, risk, uncertainty, and the role of the state /$fNicholas Barr 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-924659-9 311 $a0-19-159593-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 1. Core Arguments; 2. The Welfare State and its Objectives; 3. Organization of the Book; Part 1. Economic Theory; 2. The Market and Information; 1. The Welfare State with Perfect Information; 2. Imperfect Information in the Goods Market; 3. Imperfect Information in Insurance Markets; 4. Implications; Part 2. Insurance; Introduction to Part 2; 3. The Mirage of Private Unemployment Insurance; 1. Objectives; 2. Information Problems; 3. Operational Problems; 4. Conclusions; 4. Problems with Medical Insurance; 1. Objectives 327 $a2. Information Problems 3. Funding Health Care: The Options; 4. Conclusions; 5. Twenty-First-Century Insurance Issues; 1. Genetic Screening; 2. Long-Term-Care Insurance; Part 3. Pensions; Introduction to Part 3; 6. The Economics of Pensions; 1. Objectives; 2. The Centrality of Output; 3. Uncertainty and Risk; 4. Information Problems; 7. Misleading Guides to Pension Design; 1. Macroeconomic Mythology; 2. Myths about Pension Design; 3. The Role of Government; 8. Pension Design: The Options; 1. Lessons from Economic Theory; 2. Essential Elements in Pension Reform; 3. Policy Choices 327 $a4. Conclusions 9. Twenty-First-Century Pensions Issues; 1. Population Ageing: Are Pensions Affordable?; 2. Portable Pensions: The Welfare State as Snail Shell; Part 4. Education; Introduction to Part 4; 10. Core Issues in the Economics of Education; 1. Objectives: What do we Mean by a 'Good' Education?; 2. Measuring the Benefits of Education; 3. What is the Efficient Level of Education Spending?; 11. Information Problems; 1. Information Problems in the Market for Education; 2. Information Problems, Risk and Uncertainty in Capital Markets; 12. Designing Student Loans; 1. Why Student Loans? 327 $a2. Organizing Repayments: Mortgage-Type Schemes 3. Organizing Repayments: Income-Contingent Schemes; 4. Other Features of Student Loans; 13. Financing Higher Education: The Options; 1. Lessons from Economic Theory; 2. Lessons from International Experience; 3. Conclusions; 14. Twenty-First-Century Education Issues; 1. Private Funding; 2. Student Loans and International Labour Mobility; 3. Rationalizing the Funding of Tertiary Education; 4. Individual Learning Accounts; Part 5. The Welfare State in a Changing World; Introduction to Part 5; 15. The Welfare State in Post-Communist Countries 327 $a1. The simple analytics of transition 2. Insurance: Assisting Labour-Market Adjustment; 3. Pensions; 4. Education; 16. The Welfare State in a Changing World; 1. Is the 'Crisis' a Crisis?; 2. A Continuing Welfare State; References; Index; 330 8 $aBarr argues that the welfare state exists for reasons additional to poverty relief, reasons arising out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk and uncertainty. 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aWelfare state 606 $aRisk 606 $aUncertainty 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 0$aWelfare state. 615 0$aRisk. 615 0$aUncertainty. 676 $a330.12/6 700 $aBarr$b N. A$0231409 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820897803321 996 $aThe welfare state as piggy bank$93940994 997 $aUNINA