Why the welfare state looks like a free lunch
By: Peter H. Lindert.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 9869.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 9869.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Income distribution; Income maintenance programs; Welfare economics
Notes: "July 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.

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