books.google.fr - Since the early 1970s, debate has raged over the "crisis of the welfare state." As the United States successfully exported its bootstrap brand of capitalism and an ever-broadening range of public activity came to be viewed through the prism of profit and loss, social welfare policies were closely scrutinized...http://books.google.fr/books/about/Transformation_of_the_Welfare_State_The.html?hl=fr&id=jpyJNbdft6cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTransformation of the Welfare State : The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility