The Myth of the Welfare State

by Jack D. Douglas

Book Overview

The Myth of the Welfare Stale is a basic and sweeping explanation of the rise and fall of great powers, and of the profound impacts of these megastates on ordinary lives. Its central theme is the rise of bureaucratic collectivization in American society. It is Douglas's conviction, which he supports with a wealth of detail, that statist bureaucracies produce siagnation, often exacerbated by inflation, which in turn produces the waning of state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887382460
• ISBN13: 9780887382468
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 514 Pages