Neil Gilbert: Transformation of the Welfare State

The Welfare State

history of Great Britain from 1945 to the present day'. It covers not only the legislation which established what we have come to know as the Welfare State, but aspects such as population growth, geographical environment, and the development of the nationa-lised industries. The sections on health services are relatively small, but related to the wider context of national culture. Whilst the mai...

The Intergenerational Welfare State

demography is a realm of private decisions with public effects. in both highand low-fertility regimes, families make decisions that significantly influence the well-being of others. excessively rapid population growth can threaten economic and ecological viability. Population decline can threaten cultural continuity and fiscal sustainability. as Paul demeny has warned us, there is no invisible ...

Superlinear Speedup by Program Transformation ( Extended Abstract ) Neil

There seems to be, at least in practice, a fundamental conflict within program transformations. One way: hand transformations can yield dramatic speedups, but seem to require human insight. They are thus are only suited to small programs and have not been successfully automated. On the other hand, there exist a number of well-known automatic program transformations; but these have been proven t...

Algebra Notes: Gilbert&Gilbert

Sets and Intervals • An interval with round brackets such as (a, b) means all the numbers between a and b not including a and b. We call this interval an open interval. • An interval with square brackets such as [a, b] means all the numbers between a and b including a and b. We call this interval a closed interval. • An interval with one square bracket and one closed bracket is called a clopen ...

on Political Economy of the Welfare State THEORIES OF THE WELFARE STATE : A CRITIQUE