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Volume 1, The Story: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
January 2004
On Sale: January 12, 2004
396 pages ISBN: 0521529166 EAN: 9780521529167 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
Peter Lindert inquires as to whether social policies that
redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth.
Although taxes and transfers have been debated for
centuries, only recently have we been able to obtain a clear
view of the evolution of social spending. Lindert argues
that, contrary to the intuition of many economists and the
ideology of many politicians, social spending has
contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth.
Peter Lindert is a prize-winning researcher and teacher at
the University of California-Davis where he serves as
President of the Economic History Association and as
Co-Editor of its journal. His textbooks in international
economics have been translated into at least eight other
languages, and he has previously taught at the University of
Essex, Harvard University, Moscow State University, and
University of Wisconsin.
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