1. Introduction -- 2. The Webbs -- 3. The Economics of Deprivation -- 4. Unemployment -- 5. Cooperation -- 6. The Labour Factor -- 7. Decline and Fall -- 8. Communism -- 9. Rights and Duties -- 10. The Legacy of the Webbs.

Discusses James Buchanan′s contribution to the important topic of cost‐containment in the area of health care. Historical and ideational in its thrust, it seeks also to make a more general contribution by showing how the methodology of public choice can be applied to a specific issue in...

Purpose – Singapore does not have a welfare State. Instead it has full employment, rapid growth, affordable education and equality of opportunity. It also has the Housing Development Board and the Central Provident Fund. Public housing and compulsory savings are the subject of this paper. The...

Purpose – Singapore does not have a welfare State. Instead it has full employment, rapid growth, affordable education and equality of opportunity. It also has the Housing Development Board and the Central Provident Fund. Public housing and compulsory savings are the subject of this paper. The...