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In this striking new book it is argued that the outraged attitudes of neoliberals and many of those who work in financial institutions with regard to the size of public deficits are far from being genuine and merely mask a desire to dismantle social programs and reduce the size of government. The author makes a persuasive case that neoliberals actively seek the deepening of the financial crisis to support their ideological demands for the shrinking of government expenditure. Indeed, he argues that neoliberals have an interest in encouraging a psychosis about public deficits in the general popu

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In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.

Welfare state. --- Free enterprise. --- Etat providence --- Libre entreprise --- Welfare state --- Free enterprise --- AA / International- internationaal --- 330.580 --- 201 --- 368.40 --- 321.2 --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden. --- Sociologie: algemeenheden. --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden. --- Economisch beleid van de overheid. --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Free markets --- Laissez-faire --- Markets, Free --- Private enterprise --- Sociologie: algemeenheden --- Economisch beleid van de overheid --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, gas and water supply, tramways, coal, oil and natural gas industries, telegraph, telephone, computer networks and other modern telecommunications. The book begins with the arrival of the railways in the 1830s, charts the development of arms' length regulation, municipalisation and nationalisation, and ends on the eve of privatisation in the 1980s. Robert Millward argues that the role of ideology, especially in the form of debates about socialism and capitalism, has been exaggerated. Instead the driving forces in changes in economic organisation were economic and technological factors and the book traces their influence in shaping the pattern of regulation and ownership of these key sectors of modern economies.

Energy industries --- Telecommunication --- Transportation --- Free enterprise --- Government business enterprises --- Industries énergétiques --- Télécommunications --- Transport --- Libre entreprise --- Entreprises publiques --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Histoire. --- 620.9 --- 656 --- 654.1 --- 338 <09> --- 331.100 --- 331.12 --- 331.18 --- 338.012 --- 384.0 --- 385.1 --- EUR / Europe - Europa --- -Telecommunication --- -Transportation --- -Free enterprise --- -Government business enterprises --- -330.94 --- Nationalized companies --- Parastatals --- Public enterprises --- State-owned enterprises --- Business enterprises --- Free markets --- Laissez-faire --- Markets, Free --- Private enterprise --- Economic policy --- Public transportation --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Industries --- Power resources --- Economics of energy in general --- Transport and postal services. Traffic organization and control --- Telegraphy. Telephony. Radio. Television --- Economische geschiedenis --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de industrie. --- Geschiedenis van het vervoerwezen en van de telecommunicatie. --- Energie (productiefactor). --- Telecommunicatie: algemeenheden. --- Vervoer : economie, stelsel en beleid. --- -History --- -Economic aspects --- Europe, Central --- -Central Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- -Economic conditions --- -Energy industries --- -Europe --- -620.9 --- 620.9 Economics of energy in general --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- 654.1 Telegraphy. Telephony. Radio. Television --- 656 Transport and postal services. Traffic organization and control --- Industries énergétiques --- Télécommunications --- Conditions économiques --- 330.94 --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de industrie --- Geschiedenis van het vervoerwezen en van de telecommunicatie --- Energie (productiefactor) --- Telecommunicatie: algemeenheden --- Vervoer : economie, stelsel en beleid --- Economic aspects --- 19th century --- 20th century --- 1789-1900 --- 656 Transport en postdiensten. Verkeersorganisatie en controle --- Transport en postdiensten. Verkeersorganisatie en controle --- Arts and Humanities