Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History
This comprehensive history of the U.S. economy from colonial times to the present explores the nature of American economic growth, the economic welfare of different social groups, and the role...
This book is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.
Netherlands ( NE ) Income strata Source ( 1 ) top 5 % COMF - 1 COMP - 2 ( 3 ) deciles 7-9 K - 6 NE - 1 ( 4 ) botton 60 % ( 2 ) top 10 % COMP - 1 38.7 38.3 COMP - 2 COMP - 3 COMPA NE - 1 Sweden ( SW ) COMP - 1 32.8 35.7 COMP - 2 COMP - 3 ...
The book is both scholarly and readable."--Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development "This book has no equal in the welfare-state literature, a truly impressive achievement.
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America
Enl. and updated ed. published as: The wayward welfare state. c1981. Includes bibliographical references.
That difficulty is very evident from reading one of the best-known poverty texts of the 1960s – Michael Harrington's The Other America 11 John G. Wofford, 'The Politics of Local Responsibility: Administration of the Community Action ...
Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country?
... Perkins ' Interest in a New Deal for Blacks , ” Monthly Labor Review 103 ( 1980 ) : 31–35 ; Harvard Sitkoff , A New Deal for Blacks : The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 ) .