The Welfare State and Baumol's Law

From Poor Law to welfare state; a history of social welfare in America

The Empire of the Lone Mother: Parental Rights, Child Welfare Law, and State Restructuring

2002, H. Lessard. * University of Victoria Faculty of Law. The author would like to thank: this Journal’s anonymous reviewer, whose detailed and thorough critique greatly assisted revisions and improved the article; Andrew Petter and Dorothy Chunn, whose comments spurred the author to rethink and refine her argument; the Office of Research Administration at University of Victoria, for providing...

The Welfare State and Competitiveness

In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two-country model with exportables, importables and nontraclables to study redistribution across different types of agents in a world characterized by the presence of labor unions and distortionary ta...

The Welfare State and Redistribution

Because it taxes and spends, the welfare state is by definition redistributive, but this does not automatically entail that it creates more equality. A quick historical glance at social reform will dispel of any notion that the welfare state was pursued for egalitarian reasons. Its foundations were typically laid by conservative reformers who, like Bismarck, sought primarily to reproduce, rathe...

Normalization and the Welfare State