Part 1 Issues and objectives
Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson. Part 2 Questions of principle: Welfare philosophies and welfare finance
Alan Peacock. The welfare state - a public choice perspective
Jack Wiseman. Welfare and the enterprise society
Raymond Plant. Joint goods and benefits in kind - paternalism and liberalism in action
Alan Ryan. Part 3 Questions of practice: Constraints
Charles Carter. A national minimum? - a history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain
A.B.Atkinson. The objectives and attainments of pension schemes
Nicholas Barr. Part 4 Some issues of policy in Europe: Social policy and the European community
Steen Mangen. The welfare state in Russia
Alastair McAlley. Lessons from Sweden
Ann-Charlotte Stahlberg. Part 5 Shaping the course of policy: Principle
process and policy
Albert Weale. Is there scope for change?
Peter Barclay. Two Westminster perspectives on welfare policies
Frank Field and Timothy Raid. On rediscovering the middle way
Robert Pinthurst. Appendix: Social security in the UK.