num_pages: 165
description: The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today.
language: English
title: A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State
titlecomplete: A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State
genres: Philosophy, Politics
ratings_count: 41
publisher: Cato Institute