How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across

A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half c

It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in th

"A classic."—New York Times "Seminal, epochal, path-breaking . . . a Democracy in America for our times."—The Nation From the bestselling author of Bowling