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The Public Sector

In: Entrepreneurship and Innovation During Austerity

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  • Ian Chaston

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The Great Depression of the 1930s led to mass unemployment and declining standards of living across much of the Western world. This influenced political thinking, and the end of World War II saw the creation of the large welfare state which now absorbs the vast majority of public sector spending within the Western democracies (Lindbeck, 1995). Even as early as the 1980s, Western politicians were becoming aware that the combined influences of population ageing and increasing costs of healthcare provision would eventually lead to the situation where sustaining the public sector would cease to be a financially viable option. Few politicians articulated their concerns over this ‘ticking time bomb’, presumably because of the risk of losing the support of their electorate.

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  • Ian Chaston, 2013. "The Public Sector," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Entrepreneurship and Innovation During Austerity, chapter 14, pages 225-240, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32443-6_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137324436_14
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