# Daniel Shapiro on the Welfare State

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/daniel-shapiro-welfare-state>

**By** Daniel Shapiro

**Published:** October 29, 2007

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In his new book, _Is The Welfare State Justified?_, philosopher Daniel Shapiro insightfully combines moral and political philosophy with social science.

In his new book, _Is The Welfare State Justified?_, philosopher Daniel Shapiro insightfully combines moral and political philosophy with contemporary social science to argue that proponents of the welfare state — egalitarians, communitarians, and liberals alike — have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than most people realize.