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It is the welfare state that has made capitalism, with all its attendant benefits of economic growth, politically feasible...

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Nicholas Barr FRSA is a British economist, currently serving as professor of public economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). He received his Ph.D. in Economics as a Fulbright Scholar from the University of California and his MSc in Economics from LSE.

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