A Life of One's Own : Individual Rights and the Welfare State

A Life of One's Own : Individual Rights and the Welfare State

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Book Description
The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today.

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David Kelley subjects the institutions of the contemporary welfare state to sustained and withering criticism. A Life of One's Own is a devastating refutation of the flawed concept of "welfare rights." Kelley presents empirical evidence of the welfare state's effects on behavior, historical research on the origins of the welfare state (and on what it displaced), and philosophical clarification of such core ideas as freedom and rights. After a careful examination of the various arguments made on behalf of welfare rights, Kelley concludes that "the concept of welfare rights is invalid."

A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State,David Kelley,Cato Institute,188257771X,Moral and ethical aspects,Objectivism (Philosophy),Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare,Public welfare,Social policy,United States,Welfare state,Political Science / General

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