Para quem não conhece, e especialmente para àqueles que ainda defendem o welfare state, recomendo vivamente a sua leitura. Este relata a história e as consequências económicas e sociais da implementação do Welfare State na Grã-Bretanha. Nas palavras de Milton Friedman:
A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
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