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The High Cost of Good Intentions : A History of U. S. Federal Entitlement
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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 peacetime 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. This process--as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day--is repeated until benefits are extended to nearly all who could be considered eligible, and in turn establishes a new base for future expansions. 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.

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  • Title The High Cost of Good Intentions : A History of U. S. Federal Entitlement Programs
  • Author Cogan, John F
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date 2017-09-26
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 38273065-6
  • ISBN 9781503603547 / 1503603547
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Public welfare - United States - History, Social security - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017009793
  • Dewey Decimal Code 361.609

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