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57 Cass R.Sunstein and Richard H.Thaler, “Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron,” AEI-
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http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=405940. See also Christine Jolls, Cass R.Sunstein and Richard
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58 Doug Owram, “Economic thought in the 1930s,” in Blake and Keshen (eds) Social Welfare
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59 For the classical view that considered the economy as naturally tending towards equilibrium,
see Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, an Introductory Volume, 8th edn (London:
Macmillan, 1927). See also W.C.Clark, “Business cycles and the depression of 1920–1,”
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60 See for instance, O.D.Skelton, “Current events,” Queen’s Quarterly, 16(4) (April, 1909);
Bryce Stewart, “The problem of unemployment,” Social Welfare, 3(8) (March 1921); and
J.B.Alexander, “Business depressions,” Canadian Bankers, 34(4) (July, 1927).
61 Marshall, supra note 44, p. 79.
62 T.H.Marshall, “Citizenship and social class,” in T.H.Marshall (ed.) Citizenship and Social
Class and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950), p. 43.
63 Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class, p. 47.
64 Ibid., p. 14.
65 Howard Glennerster, British Social Policy Since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 35–8.
66 Beveridge Report, p. 6.
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2 Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1962),
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3 Mark Blaug, “Education vouchers—it all depends on what you mean,” in J.Le Grand and
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4 Wiseman, J., “The economics of education,” Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 6(1)
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5 Blaug, 1984, p. 160.
6 Ibid.
7 Bradford, D.F. and Shaviro, D.N., “Economics of vouchers,” in Steuerle, Ooms, Peterson and
Reischauer (eds) Vouchers and the Provision of Public Services (Washington, DC:
Brookings Institution Press, 2000), p. 43.
8 Blaug, 1984, p. 164.