Growing Public: Volume 2, Further Evidence: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century

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

• | Author: Peter Lindert
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 03, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521529174
• | ISBN-13: 9780521529174