Next Welfare State?

<p>COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries spent tens of billions of pounds it doesn't have and created a mountain of public debt. And yet when the crisis has passed we will be left with all the old problems of welfare and well-being which we have systematically failed to address over the past fifty years.  </p><p><br></p><p>In this book Chris Pierson argues that we need to think quite differently about how we can ensure our collective well-being in the future. To do this he looks backwards to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.</p><p><br></p>