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“It is argued that regulators are frequently captured by those whom they are supposed to regulate.”

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 88-89

“Efficiency advantages and disadvantages are more finely balanced than with health care - one person's 'sign of a civilized society' is another's 'society is going to the dogs.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, School Education, p. 309

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

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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.”

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

“A society is a cooperative venture for the mutual advantage of its members.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 3, Political Theory: Social Justice And The State, p. 42

“A reduction in the liberty of the least well off cannot be justified even if it is to their economic advantage.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 3, Political Theory: Social Justice And The State, p. 49

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

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

“Unless the countries of East Asia are very different, rising incomes and the weakening of extended family ties will lead to demands for rising social expenditure.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Conclusion, p. 358

“By 'trading' (i. e. pooling), individuals can acquire certainty.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 5, Insurance, p. 105

“It has been argued that relatively poor people will borrow to buy a house, so why not to buy a degree?”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 14, Higher Education, p. 323

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

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

“Markets can be efficient or inefficient; so can governments. thus market failure is a counterpoint to government failure.”

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

“The European Commission uses an explicit relative poverty line of 60 per cent of national average income.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 6, Problems Of Definition And Measurement, p. 132

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

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

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

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

“Thus social insurance, in sharp contrast with actuarial insurance, can cover not only risk but also uncertainty.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 5, Insurance, p. 117

“Perfect competition must hold in product and factor markets, and also (and importantly) in capital markets. The assumption has two essential features: economic agents must be price takers; and they must have equal power.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 73

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

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

“Education to the extent that it raises an individual's future earnings, increases her future tax payments; in the absence of any subsidy, an individual's investment in education confers a 'dividend' on future taxpayers.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, School Education, p. 297-298

“So far as school education is concerned, many of the assumptions necessary for market efficiency fail, the main problems being imperfect information, imperfect capital markets, and external effects.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, School Education, p. 318

“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.”

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

“The crucial point is that any system of health care must constitute a genuine strategy-ad hoc tinkering is a guaranteed road to disaster.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 12, Health And Health Care, p. 290

“Given the external benefits higher education creates, it is efficient that taxpayers subsidies should be a permanent part of the landscape.”

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Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 14, Higher Education, p. 329

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