State and Social Welfare, The

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Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to rest. The contributors examine the purpose of this area of public activity of 60per cent of all public expenditure in Britain. > Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to rest. > Part 1 Issues and objectives, Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson.\nPart 2 Questions of principle: Welfare philosophies and welfare finance, Alan Peacock. The welfare state - a public choice perspective,Jack Wiseman. Welfare and the enterprise society, Raymond Plant. Joint goods and benefits in kind - paternalism and liberalism in action, Alan Ryan.\nPart 3 Questions of practice: Constraints, Charles Carter. A national minimum? - a history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain, A.B.Atkinson. The objectives and attainments of p.