SCLG3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Filial Piety, Gary Becker, New Rights
4 Nov 2018
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Neoliberalism towards the restoration of private family responsibility for welfare. Both the welfare state and economic activity have grown much more slowly in advanced countries since the early 1970s. Gary becker, the evolution of the family, in a treatise on the family, enlarged. Edition (harvard, ma: harvard university press, 1993 [1981]), p. 360. Self-reliance" as it is currently advocated amounts to reliance upon one"s family . The new right seems to be dedicated to a policy of self-reliance" which would, in effect, force people to rely upon family and friends rather than the state as the basic source of support . Robert e. goodin, reasons for welfare, p. 332 and p. 342. Poor law officials could bring relatives before the courts and, if they had sufficient means, attempt to recoup all or part of the relief dispensed to the pauper. Structured public relief systems in united states and most commonwealth countries up until the.
