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"In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat."
Attributed to Leon Trotsky 1879-1940 (from The Oxford Book of Political Quotations)
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"A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winner.
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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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Tag Archives: Japan
Extra education people pay for
It seems possible, as a minimum, that the supplementary private education that students have in Japan is one of the reasons that Japan does well in international assessments of standards. There was an article about these schools, the Juku, in … 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 unfamiliar world of Japanese healthcare
Notes on a talk by Professor Kiyoshi Morita Director of Okayama University Hospital Speaking at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation 14/6/11. He said that Japan had an insurance-based healthcare service and everyone was covered. 70% of the provision is private. (It … Continue reading
In Japan, hard work and the parents are important in education. Maybe we should try these things.
The reputation of Japanese education has taken a bit of a tumble. It was regarded in the 1980s as being a model to follow. This was because the Japanese economy was doing so astonishingly well that people around the world … Continue reading
Japan has an old-fashioned contributions-based welfare system. It works pretty well but it is probably moving towards a worse model
Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation 7/4/11. Session on work and pensions in the UK and Japan. Talk by Soichiro Sasago, First Secretary and the Embassy of Japan in London Significant points I took away from his talk: Minimal income support. The … Continue reading
Why are there so few Japanese unmarried mothers?
Yoshiko found she was pregnant and talked to her live-in lover about what they should do. His attitude was not exactly out of the P.C. book of ‘The Right Things To Say When Your Girlfriend Says She Is Pregnant’. He … Continue reading