Work and Welfare
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691058830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism.The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course.. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work
The Shift to the Right Gaining Still More Steam not a natural The two essays in this brief book were originally the 1998 Tanner Lectures in Human Values, delivered by the Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Solow at Princeton. The volume also includes an introduction by political scientist Amy Guttman and comments by economists Glenn Loury and John Roemer, journalist Anthony Lewis, and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. The book closes with Solow's response to the comments.Solow's lectures were prompted by passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, signed by right-of-center Democrat Bill Clinton in 1996. Solow dismisses the title of the act as fatuo. Policy analysis inclusive of 'the dignity of labor' Short but very worthwhile. The balance between poverty-alleviating handouts and poverty-alleviating work is, from the perspectives of fairness, dignity of labor and social equanimity, strongly tilted towards labor. But developing policies supporting these perspectives is vastly complicated by the existence of children needing support, zero marginal product workers and disability. Solow's talks, together with those of his interlocutors, does an excellent job of preparing the reader to think closely on the topic, by carefully spelling out the equilibrating concerns of each policy focus.
Solow does make it clear that he holds the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in low regard; he cannot "bear to write down the fatuous title that Congress gave it." Instead, he makes his own case for "fair workfare," arguing that if work is mandated, then decent jobs and child care must be provided. This short book is based on the two presentations he made there. From Booklist Solow, MIT professor emeritus and economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1987 for his work in the 1950s on econo