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How did F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Sir William Beveridge’s Social Insurance and Allied Services shape the politics of the welfare state in the United States and the United Kingdom?
Eric Hammer and Daniel Klein examine the actors in the system of the welfare state—the taxpayers, voters, politicians, pundits and advocates, civil servants, and recipients of welfare-state benefits—to determine whether generosity is present. They contend that the welfare state is devoid of generosity.