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Social Policy and Economic Progress

Richard M.Titmuss, MA Xiaoting1, LIU Jitong2   

  1. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK; 1. Medical Affairs Office,The 1st Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000; 2. School of Public Health,Peking University, Beijing, 100191
  • Received:2021-01-11 Online:2021-11-15 Published:2021-12-14

Abstract: This paper is one of the classic literature of Titmuss, the founder of social policy in Britoin and the world and the founder of modern sociol welfare theory. The “welfare state” was in its heyday in Europe and American liberal economists advocated the privatization of welfare. Against the background of highly industrialized society, increasingly rich material wealth, and prosperous country and society,the author focused on the status, function, role and role of the government in modern social welfare from the perspective of social policy and economic development. Using the historical experience and lessons of social development in the United Kingdom and the United States, the author focused on the social cost and many social problems brought about by social change, such as income and wealth inequality, shame, stigma, poverty, non-freedom, violent conflict, negative income tax and the quantitative measurement of social costs, deeply analyzed and thoroughly criticized a number of assumptions about competitive private markets from the liberalism, especially the long-term prevailing economics automation model of “optimism”, summarized and pointed out some serious misunderstanding on existing British and American thoughts. It fully demonstrated the objective development law and basic direction that “the higher the level of modern social and economic development is, the more social policy and welfare state system is needed, and the greater the role of social policy and welfare state system is”, and clearly expounded the interactive relationship between economic policy and social policy, economic growth and social growth.For the first time, it put forward the strategic transformation of “from poverty to inequality, from specific projects to integration of social rights, and from economic growth to social growth”, which is of far-reaching historical significance.

Key words: Titmuss’s philosophy of welfare, social welfare system, social policy, economic growth, social growth, welfare modernization

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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