Nicholas Barr: Welfare

Nicholas Barr is British economist. Explore interesting quotes on welfare.

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“there is an efficiency case for an institutional welfare state.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 93

“A 'socialist' country like Sweden has a highly articulated welfare state; Denmark and New Zealand (which are not highly industrialized) were among the first countries with a public system of old-age pensions; and Saskatchewan was the first Canadian province to have publicly organized health insurance.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 2, The Historical Background, p. 39

“We need a welfare state of some sort for efficiency reasons, and would continue to do so even if all distributional problems were solved.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Conclusion, p. 354

“In a world of certainty, the welfare state has only a small role.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 79

“The welfare state is the outcome of diverse forces over nearly four centuries of developing social policy.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Conclusion, p. 349

“Money income is a flawed measure of individual welfare.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 6, Problems Of Definition And Measurement, p. 128

“It is the welfare state that has made capitalism, with all its attendant benefits of economic growth, politically feasible…”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Conclusion, p. 359

“First, the welfare state is not a subject apart, but fits naturally into the framework of economic analysis. Secondly, the theoretical arguments support the existence of the welfare state not only for well known equity reasons but also - and powerfully - in efficiency terms.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 3