The productivist welfare state: how tackling inequality can unleash innovation

Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 31 Number 3 (2023)

The productivist welfare state: how tackling inequality can unleash innovation
Nick O'Donovan, Craig Berry pages 19-29

Abstract

In UK welfare debates, equality and economic growth are often treated as opposites: one inevitably comes at the expense of the other. But evidence that more equal societies are more innovative suggests a need to rethink the assumption that redistributive welfare policies and progressive taxation disincentivise innovation and entrepreneurship. 

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Nick O'Donovan, Craig Berry (2023) The productivist welfare state: how tackling inequality can unleash innovation, Renewal, 31(3), 19-29

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