HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Child Benefit, Making Money, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
31 Mar 2016
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Welfare state sometimes called europe"s third way as neither capitalism nor communism. 2. give up some national sovereignty to enter the e. u. allow someone else to make policy for europe as a whole. 2. in place due to fear of working class discontent expected the government to take care of you: keynes" interwar ideas: get yourself out of depression by spending money. Rst country to apply keynes" ideas into practice see a rise in economy while everyone continues to decrease: after the war, a tradition of government intervention from the top down has started, britain. Five giants of evil: want - social bene ts to remove economic fear. 3. disease - create national health service ignorance - eleven-plus" test decides an academic or vocational future, free secondary school and free university squalor - lack of good housing as most are victorian-age housing (outhouse, coal-heated housing)
