Transfer Spending, Taxes, And, the American Welfare State

' Let there be no doubt. Some of the best economic comment in our time, unabashedly liberal and egalitarian, comes these days like a fresh breeze from the Great Plains. The source is Wallace Peterson, a longtime professor and truly distinguished scholar at the University of Nebraska. He was never more cogent than in this well- quantified, high readable treatise on what constitutes good and decent government in our time. ' John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University , 1990 ' This book would serve well as a text for a graduate or upper level undergraduate course looking at the role of government in income distribution...it is a handy collection of facts on government benefits. ' Journal of Economic Literature 30 1992Peterson, Wallace C. is the author of 'Transfer Spending, Taxes, And, the American Welfare State', published 1990 under ISBN 9780792390770 and ISBN 0792390776.