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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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Tag Archives: Germany
The German employment miracle
Germany used to have worse unemployment than Britain. Now it has better. Youth unemployment has fallen to 8% – half the level it was in 2005. And this despite the Eurozone crisis. Something happened in Germany. What was it? Elizabeth … Continue reading
strict rent control leads to’ lower quantity and quality of rental housing’
From an IEA posting. A recent OECD report on housing policy finds: ‘An illustrative correlation shows that across countries, stricter rent control tends to be associated with lower quantity and quality of rental housing, as measured by the share of tenants who … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Housing
Over-training – yes, there surely is such a thing
Governments increasingly legislate for more and more qualifications before people are allowed to do jobs. This is always presented as being something which will increase the quality of the work that these people ultimately do. But if has potential damaging … Continue reading
Power politics, Germany and the EU
On the overnight train from Amsterdam to Warsaw, I met a Polish man who apparently advises a parliamentary committee in Poland on foreign policy. Naturally we talked a little about the British veto of a EU treaty on fiscal control … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Politics
“Confused? You will be….”
I am on the road, interviewing people in Holland as part of the research for my new book. Yesterday was confusing. I visited a think tank in the morning and a couple of academics in the afternoon. In both cases … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Healthcare and the NHS
The most powerful man in education in the world
I was told that Michael Gove, the British secretary of state for education, said this man was the most important person in education in the world. I think that could be upgraded to ‘the most powerful’. He does not run … Continue reading
Esping-Andersen and his three worlds of welfare capitalism
One of the most influential writers on welfare states is Gosta Esping-Andersen. Back in 1989, he wrote a book called The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in which he categorised welfare states into three kinds. When I first heard about … Continue reading
The rise and fall(?) of the state
Between 1940 and 1975, government’s share of GDP “doubled in Germany, tripled in the UK, quadrupled in the Netherlands and quintupled in Denmark.” Yet the apparent need for state intervention increased proving “the amazing ability of the welfare state to … Continue reading