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The Welfare of Nations (Paperback)
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The Welfare of Nations (Paperback)
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List price R454
Loot Price R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
You Save R38 (8%)
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Listed by the Sunday Times as one of the five best political books
of 2015. Welfare states have spread across the globe, transforming
modern civilisation. But the take-over is often going badly. In
Marseilles, armed drug gangs dominate the social housing estates.
In America, an outstandingly rich country, 45 million people are
dependent on food stamps. In Britain, the NHS has one of the worst
records for cancer care in the advanced world. Many countries are
raising more in taxes but nevertheless getting deeper into debt
because of their burgeoning welfare states. All around the world,
behaviour is being damaged by welfare state dependency while
governments become more and more like Big Brother, telling us what
we must do. James Bartholomew travelled around the world seeing how
cultures and lives are being changed - seeing what is going wrong
but also looking for countries where they are making a better job
of it. His book is an unparalleled investigation in which he tells
the story of the people and places he visited. He takes the reader
on a journey, which includes burnt-out cars in France, a
tough-minded benefits office in Singapore and innovative hospitals
in Spain.The narrative is supplemented with many photos and graphs
that demonstrate and explain. The book is like a window on the
modern world.
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