Understand The Welfare State

I have just read a wonderful book pandering to my prejudices, and I would recommend you to read it too.

James Bartholomew's The Welfare State We're In is a refreshingly critical book about the Welfare State. Easy to read, well argued, informative, historical, provocative, and well referenced.

In some ways it is depressing to contemplate the immense waste and destruction wrought by the often well meaning people who have brought about the welfare state, but it makes me optimistic that someone can pull together such a cogent and devastating critique, showing not just how ineffective and counter-productive the welfare state is, but how it helps explain and give a perspective to the enormous increase in crime and change in morality since the 1950s.

It is sometimes hard to imagine how anyone can any longer begin to challenge the vested interests behind the welfare state, and then reform it, but we have to start with rational critiques like this one, showing how things really are, how they once were, how they might have been, which then point to how things might yet be.

Read it now.

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