Benjamin M. Friedman
Auteur van The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
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We can, however, think of mainstream examples that seem to portray the opposite of the thesis. For instance, it was as a response to the suffering of the Great Depression in the 1930s that the New Deal and the welfare state was thought up in America. It was as a reaction to the excesses of authoritarian rule that the welfare state was conjured in the post-World War II period. On the other hand, period of continuous growth and prosperity may lead to increasin belligerancy and hubris and the military state, as is the popular perception, for instance, of the resurgent Chinese state, or even of the rise of more authoritarian, less tolerant regimes in many democracies across the world. The book serves as a valable record of the economic and social record of the post-War world; it would, perhaaps, have read better were it not hobbled by the author's pre-conceived theory.… (meer)