ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 12 1948 46
The prerequisites 46 The Acts 48
13 A Welfare State 52 The 1948 solution 52 Inflation 53 National Assistance and universal benefits 56 Other criticisms 57
14 The problem of poverty 6o The Welfare State: points of weakness 6o A new analysis 63 Poverty 67 Social security and the problem 70
15 Social policy .and negative goals 73 Social legislation and society 73 Social policy and negative goals 77
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