How is the “welfare state” to be justified? The usual answer is that it is a way for the well-off to help the less well-off. But this is not its only role.It is also a “piggy bank”, as Nicholas Barr of the London School of Economics has argued. More precisely, it is a substitute for markets that the private sector does not offer.
如何才能爲「福利國家」正名？通常的答案是，福利國家是富人幫助較不富裕羣體的一種方式。但這並非福利國家的唯一角色。正如倫敦政治經濟學院(London School of Economics)的尼古拉斯•巴爾(Nicholas Barr)所言，福利國家還是一個「存錢罐」。更準確地說，它是市場的替代，是民營部門無法提供的。
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