Title Making social spending work / Peter H. Lindert

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 422 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Overview -- Chapter 1 Enduring Issues -- Chapter 2 Findings and Lessons -- Part II The Long Rise, and Its Causes -- Chapter 3 Why Poor Relief Arrived So Late -- Chapter 4 The Dawn of Mass Schooling before 1914 -- Chapter 5 Public Education since 1914 -- Chapter 6 More, but Different, Social Spending in Rich Countries since 1914 -- Chapter 7 Is the Rest of the World Following a Different Path? -- Part III What Effects? -- Chapter 8 Effects on Growth, Jobs, and Life -- Chapter 9 Why No Net Loss of GDP or Work? -- Chapter 10 Do the Rich Pay the Poor for All This? -- Part IV Confronting Threats -- Chapter 11 Do Immigration Tensions Fray the Safety Nets? -- Chapter 12 Pensions and the Curse of Long Life -- Chapter 13 Approaches to Public Pension Reform -- Chapter 14 Borrowing Social-Spending Lessons -- References -- Index Summary How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions around intergenerational inequality and fiscal redistribution, the returns to investment in human capital, how to deal with an aging population, whether migration is a cost or a benefit, and how social spending differs in autocracies and democracies. The book shows that what we need to do above all is to invest more in the young from cradle to career, and shift the burden of paying for social insurance away from the workplace and to society as a whole Subject Government spending policy -- Cross-cultural studies Welfare economics -- Cross-cultural studies Government spending policy Welfare economics Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108806268 1108806260 9781108784467 1108784461

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