TY - BOOK AU - Gamble,Andrew TI - Can the welfare state survive? T2 - Global futures series SN - 9780745698748 (pbk.) : AV - HB846 PY - 2016/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Welfare state KW - Great Britain KW - Economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response ER -