Tag: social citizenship
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1979 Goodbye Nanny Welfare State, Hello Neoliberal Daddy State: Citizen Smith, Thatcherism and the “Loony Left”
Citizen Smith, Thatcherism and the “Loony Left” We have heard these scroungers and benefit cheats stories before… In “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936), Keynes argued for an interventionist state which, through mechanisms such as taxation, would operate as a check to the free market. For Keynes, writing in the context of…