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- Summary
- Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peace-time level. The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. In this process -- as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day -- each benefit expansion establishes a new base for future expansions and the entitlement ultimately spreads to a point where the program's original noble purposes are no longer recognizable. His work provides a unifying explanation for the evolutionary path that nearly all federal entitlement programs have followed over the past two hundred years, tracing both their shared past and the financial risks they pose for future generations. -- Inside jacket flap
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- eng
- Extent
- xii, 500 pages
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- 9781503603547
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- The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs
- Title
- The high cost of good intentions
- Title remainder
- a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs
- Statement of responsibility
- John F. Cogan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peace-time level. The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. In this process -- as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day -- each benefit expansion establishes a new base for future expansions and the entitlement ultimately spreads to a point where the program's original noble purposes are no longer recognizable. His work provides a unifying explanation for the evolutionary path that nearly all federal entitlement programs have followed over the past two hundred years, tracing both their shared past and the financial risks they pose for future generations. -- Inside jacket flap
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- Entitlement spending
- Public welfare
- Social security
- Entitlement spending
- Public welfare
- Social security
- United States
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- The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs, John F. Cogan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-477) and index
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- 24 cm
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- xii, 500 pages
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- 9781503603547
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- 2017009793
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- The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs, John F. Cogan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-477) and index
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- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9781503603547
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- 2017009793
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- unmediated
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