516 Pages
by
Routledge
514 Pages
by
Routledge
514 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; 1: The American Megastate; 2: The Essential Roots of Welfare Statism; 3: The Ancient Dawn of Welfare Statism; 4: The Drift into the Modernist Megastates; 5: The Power of Political Myths; 6: The Explosion of Modernist Millennialism; 7: Rationalism and Scientism versus Human Nature; 8: Central Planning versus Individual Planning; 9: The Informational Pathologies Inherent in Bureaucracy; 10: “Freedom Works!”
Biography
Jack D. Douglas
