What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Dennis Snower

No 1018, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market failures, government failures, and implementation costs. Two proposals for reform of the Welfare State are outlined.

Keywords: Education; Free Enterprise; Health; Inequality; Poverty; Unemployment; Welfare State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 H2 H4 I1 I2 I3 P5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-11
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