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Welfare as government intervention

In: A Modern Guide to State Intervention

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  • Torsten Niechoj

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Niechoj analyses the emergence of the modern welfare state - based on the writings of Marx and Polanyi - as a response to the evolution of a market society, and describes the provision of welfare as a collective action problem which is solved by a state that takes responsibility for welfare. The author focuses then on the character of welfare as interventionism and discusses and weighs liberal arguments against welfare.

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  • Torsten Niechoj, 2019. "Welfare as government intervention," Chapters, in: Nikolaos Karagiannis & John E. King (ed.), A Modern Guide to State Intervention, chapter 7, pages 164-175, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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