Choking on Growth

Frank Turner

Chapter 13 in Welfare and Values, 1997, pp 144-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Professor Frowen, in the previous chapter, has considered ways in which a government might seek to meet the escalating costs of social welfare. He argues that the affluent are unlikely to subsidize such costs by themselves contributing voluntarily to health care, schooling, and so on, while at the same time fully supporting public provision for the less affluent. Therefore he looks to economic expansion to generate sufficient resources to fund adequate social provision. Economic growth, runs the argument, will (subject to certain conditions such as constant tax rates) increase tax revenue even as it lessens the burden of supporting the unemployed, so freeing resources for more constructive use.

Keywords: Moral Community; Social Good; Economic Expansion; Religious Symbol; Absolute Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25547-4_14

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