Selfish Generations? : How Welfare States Grow Old (2 ed)

As the 'baby boom', whose taxes have funded support for the elderly, is succeeded by the 'baby bust', the welfare state is being thrown into crisis.

Thomson's work at Massey University initiated a major reorganisation of welfare provision in New Zealand, and this important and timely book extends the scope of his iconoclastic analysis to the current situation in Britain, Europe and the USA.