Trust, inequality and the welfare state – mini course

4 nov 2012, kl 18:01
bergh

As a part of the course Topics in public economics, I start teaching tomorrow. The topic of my lectures: Trust, inequality and the welfare state.

The reading list with links to online-versions

• Barr, N. (1992). "Economic Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Interpretation." Journal of Economic Literature 30(2): 741-803. Free version.
• Creedy, J. (1996). "Measuring Income Inequality." Australian Economic Review 29(2): 236-246. Free version.
• Creedy, J. (1999). "Taxation, Redistribution and Progressivity: An Introduction." Australian Economic Review 32(4): 410-422. Free version.
• Bergh, A. (2005). "On the counterfactual problem of welfare state research: How can we measure redistribution?" European Sociological Review 21(4): 345-357. Free version.
• Glaeser, E. L., D. I. Laibson, et al. (2000). "Measuring Trust." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(3): 811-846. Free version.
• Kumlin, S. and B. Rothstein (2005). "Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare-State Institutions." Comparative Political Studies 38(4): 339-365. Free version.
• Bergh, A. and C. Bjørnskov (2011). "Historical trust levels predict the current size of the welfare state." Kyklos 64(1): 1-19. Free version.

Article originally appeared on (http://andreasbergh.se/).