As the 'baby boom', whose taxes have funded support for the elderly, is succeeded by the 'baby bust', the welfare state is being thrown into crisis. Thomson's work at Massey University initiated a major reorganisation of welfare provision in New Zealand, and this important and timely book extends the scope of his iconoclastic analysis to the current situation in Britain, Europe and the USA.
The welfare gamble; a welfare state for the young; youth-state becomes
elder-state; economic management and generation fortunes; a new poor;
generation fortunes in the longer run; the problem of the common; a future
for the welfare state?
