#1031 Peter Lindert: How Government Social Spending Works
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Peter Lindert. He is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. And today we're talking about his book, Making Social Spending Work.
So Dr. Lindert, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Well, thank you, Ricardo. A pleasure for me too.
So just to introduce the topic here, let me start perhaps with the most basic question, just for people to understand or to have a good idea of what we're talking about here exactly. So what what is social spending and what counts as social spending? In my work, I am concentrating on government spending on public education, public health, public pension insurance, public housing, and welfare for the poor. Things like that.
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