TY - GEN N2 - The welfare state has, over the past 40 years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals. Taking as examples three cases not often considered together-Britain, Germany, and Japan-this volume investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare. AB - The welfare state has, over the past 40 years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals. Taking as examples three cases not often considered together-Britain, Germany, and Japan-this volume investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare. T1 - Liberalism and the welfare state :economists and arguments for the welfare state / AU - Backhouse, Roger, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HB95 ID - 798627 KW - Neoliberalism KW - Welfare state. SN - 9780190676711 TI - Liberalism and the welfare state :economists and arguments for the welfare state / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676681.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676681.001.0001 ER -