Growing 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. Lindert argues that, contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth.
Growing 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. Lindert argues that, contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth.
Part I. Overview: 1. Patterns and puzzles 2. Findings Part II. The Rise of Social Spending: 3. Poor relief before 1880 4. Interpreting the patterns of early poor relief 5. The rise of mass public schooling before 1914 6. Public schooling in the twentieth century: what happened to American leadership? 7. Explaining the rise of social transfers since 1880 Part III. Prospects for Social Transfers: 8. The public pension crisis 9. Social transfers in the second and third worlds Part IV. What Effects on Economic Growth?: 10. Keys to the free-lunch puzzle 11. On the well-known demise of the Swedish Welfare State 12. How the keys were made: democracy and cost control.
Part I. Overview: 1. Patterns and puzzles 2. Findings Part II. The Rise of Social Spending: 3. Poor relief before 1880 4. Interpreting the patterns of early poor relief 5. The rise of mass public schooling before 1914 6. Public schooling in the twentieth century: what happened to American leadership? 7. Explaining the rise of social transfers since 1880 Part III. Prospects for Social Transfers: 8. The public pension crisis 9. Social transfers in the second and third worlds Part IV. What Effects on Economic Growth?: 10. Keys to the free-lunch puzzle 11. On the well-known demise of the Swedish Welfare State 12. How the keys were made: democracy and cost control.
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