State and Welfare

David Reisman ()
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David Reisman: University of Surrey

Chapter Chapter 9 in Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 2022, pp 157-178 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A society is a single organism. Making comparisons with T.H. Green, T.H. Marshall, R. Titmuss and F. Tönnies, the chapter shows that to the Webbs the parts add up to a whole that transcends the neoclassical economists’ factored-down one-off. Each member of the national collective has rights but also duties. Each is entitled to share in a national minimum, cultural as well as physical, which empowers but also constrains. State-provided services such as education and healthcare integrate the dependent in a common welfare experience. Universalism fosters a sense of one-nationhood which is economically as well as morally superior to liberal individualism.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10008-6_9

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