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In the last chapter, we dealt with the bulk of the welfare activities of what used to be the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In this chapter we will take up the remaining parts, education and medicine. The three activities are indeed the largest “welfare” activities undertaken in the United States. The majority of medicine in the United States is still private, but there is a good deal of government finance and continuous talk about more. Education, on the other hand, is largely a government activity, although there is some private education. We will start with education, specifically elementary education.
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Tullock, G. (1983). Education and Medicine. In: Economics of Income Redistribution. Kluwer-Nijhoff Studies in Human Issues. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7253-8_9
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