Growing Public Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

Name: Growing Public Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521821759

ISBN-10: 0521821754

ISBN-13: 9780521821759

Edition: 2004

Authors: Peter H. Lindert

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Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only recently are we able to see the total picture of the evolution of social spending. This book examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Peter 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. Also Available...Growing Public, Volume 1: The Story

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Peter H. Lindert is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis.




The Underlying Framework



A minimal theory of social transfers



A guide to the tests



Accounting for Social Spending, Jobs and Growth



Explaining the rise of mass public schooling



Explaining the rise of social transfers



What drove postwar social spending?



Social transfers hardly affected growth



Reconciling unemployment and growth in the OECD


Appendices