In a new book, Stefan Fölster and Nima Sanandaj welfare outcomes are compared across 23 OECD nations using measures covering health, education, unemployment, and social exclusion. The findings present a radical challenge to the common idea that improving welfare outcomes requires higher taxes and more spending. It suggests that ‘welfare state crowding out’ is an increasing problem, where high-tax and spend approaches waste resources and crowds out some of the most essential welfare state tasks, market welfare services, precautionary saving and insurances as well as the role of the family.
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