1st Edition
The Rise of Big Government How Egalitarianism Conquered America
By Sven Larson
Copyright 2018
146 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe. Yet over the past half century they have imported and embraced the most transformative social idea of modern Scandinavia: egalitarianism. Today, the United States is more like Sweden than it is different, dedicated to economic redistribution and to vigorously defending its big government. What price, morally and... Read more
Acknowledgments
1. The Problem
2. Where it all Started
3. The Swedish Roots of the American Welfare State
4. Exporting Egalitarianism to America
5. Problem 1: Fiscal Eugenics
6. Problem 2: Slow Growth
7. Problem 3: Government Debt
8. Conclusion
Reference List
Index
Biography
Sven R. Larson is an American political economist and policy analyst. His research, which is published in peer-review journals and by free-market think tanks, covers fiscal policy, the welfare state and the application of economic freedom. He is the author of Industrial Poverty (Gower, 2014) about the role of the welfare state in the European economic crisis.
