A Nation of Takers
America's Entitlement Epidemic
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2012
Summary
In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy-to-read, four-color charts…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781599474359 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1599474352 |
| Author: | Nicholas Eberstadt |
| Publisher: | Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 141g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 10mm |
| Series: | New Threats to Freedom Series |
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Critics Review
“Nicholas Eberstadt is a brilliant demographer and social scientist. In A Nation of Takers, his argument, though deeply informed by empirical analysis, is fundamentally a moral one. His concern is with personal–and national–character. He pleads with us to notice the ways in which a culture of dependency–and the entitlement mentality it breeds–undermines initiative, self-respect, the sense of personal responsibility, civic-mindedness, and other virtues that are indispensable to the flourishing of a free society.”
- Robert P. George, Princeton University
About The Author
Nicholas Eberstadt
Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist and a demographer by training, holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at American Enterprise Institute. He is also a senior adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. He researches and writes extensively on economic development, foreign aid, global health, demographics, and poverty. William A. Galston is a political theorist. He holds the Zilkha Chair in Governance at the Brookings Institution. In addition he is College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. He was a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton on domestic policy.Yuval Levin is the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, founding editor of National Affairs magazine, and a senior editor of EPPC’s journal The New Atlantis. His areas of specialty include health care, entitlement reform, economic and domestic policy, science and technology policy, political philosophy, and bioethics. Mr. Levin served on the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush focusing on health care as well as bioethics and culture-of-life issues. Mr. Levin previously served as Executive Director of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and as a congressional staffer.
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