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The price of citizenship
redefining America's welfare state
By Katz, Michael S.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80505-208-4
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 2001
In this exhaustive historical and political study of welfare in 20th-century America, political scientist Katz (Improving Poor People) focuses on the destructive influence of the market economy on social welfare programs. He argues that "the market's radical individualism, its processes of marginalization and exclusion, and its subversion of the public sphere" has a "corrosive impact" on our society because it ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
