The moral economy of welfare states : Britain and Germany compared / by Steffen Mau.

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Mau, Steffen, 1968-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:	Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 5.
Subjects:	Welfare economics. Welfare state. Great Britain > Social policy. Germany > Social policy. Social policy. Germany. Great Britain.