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The Evidence of History
Author(s) -
Seldon Arthur
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - welfare state , state (computer science) , welfare , displacement (psychology) , state of health , health services , public economics , economics , political science , sociology , law , psychology , market economy , computer science , physics , demography , population , power (physics) , algorithm , battery (electricity) , quantum mechanics , politics , psychotherapist
The historical method of the ‘counter‐factual’ is used in this symposium to shed light on the circumstances in which the welfare state came over time to supplant voluntary private services in education, health, pensions, etc. The fundamental cost of the welfare state is its displacement of these services.