ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00223.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The historical method of the ‘counter‐factual’ is used in this symposium to shed light on the circumstances in which the welfare state came over time to supplant voluntary private services in education, health, pensions, etc. The fundamental cost of the welfare state is its displacement of these ser

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00224.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Beveridge envisaged National Insurance as a last resort scheme which would shrink as economic growth improved. The reverse has been the outcome. Targeting of the oldest and neediest, and the poorest families, would make more sense. The scope for private substitutes for state welfare is limited.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00225.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

With the Forster Act of 1870 the state look over the rode of financing and suppliying education in Britain when private schooling was growing rapidly. If it had not done so we would have been spared the unprecedented excess costs in taxation required to finance it today, and we would have had real choice in education.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00226.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Before 1911 three‐quarters of those covered by the 1911 National Insurance Act were already paying for primary medical care. By 1939 about 60% of acute hospital care was provided by voluntary hospitals. The huge scope of private provision demonstrates that iswas unnecessary for the state to take over medical car

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00227.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

State intervention in housing since rent control was introduced in 1915 has so distorted the pattern of investment that it is difficult to assess how the market might have developed without it. It has been hugely redistributive and massively inefficient.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00228.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The welfare state, and especially the state pension system, has lessened the British people's prudential urge to save. The free market would have ensured that competition invigorated traditional methods of saving and introduced new ones.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00229.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The introduction of social insurance in Britain stemmed ultimately from Beveridge's and others' desire to abolish poverty. Beveridge failed to understand that social insurance is incompatible with private insurance markets, and especially unemployment insurance.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00230.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

self‐help among the working classes was widespread over a century ago, especially through the frinedly sociaties. The welfare state reformers’ grandiose centralised shemes have damaged the spirit of self

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00231.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Had the 1911 national insurance scheme been voluntary, permitting opting out, friendly societies would have grown significantly larger in the inter‐war year. A renaissance of voluntary action in social security and welfare would require a rodical overhaul of the legislative and policy framewor

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00232.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY