Growing Public
Subtitle: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521821759
Subjects: Development economics; Social history; Social welfare & social services; Government spending policy; Case studies; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Transfer payments; History; Development - Economic Development; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Income distribution
First sentence: To explain both the causes and the consequences of social spending, it helps to have a coherent framework, one that reveals the logical links between the host of points being made.