Economics focus - Why welfare?

Mar 11th 2004
From The Economist print edition

An important new book traces the links between politics, racial diversity
and the generosity of the state*

"NOTHING better encapsulates the different attitudes of America and Europe
to the poor than a table towards the end of Alberto Alesina's and Edward
Glaeser's remarkable book*, due to be published later this month. It
compares the prevalence of three beliefs: that the poor are trapped in
poverty; that luck determines income; and that the poor are lazy. The first
is held by only 29% of Americans but by 60% of citizens of the European
Union; the second, by 30% of Americans and 54% of Europeans; and the third,
by contrast, by 60% of Americans and 24% of Europeans.  ... SNIP "

*Fighting poverty in the US and Europe: AWorld of Difference, Oxford
University Presas, forthccoming.

http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2498947

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