Polityka socjalna państwa kapitalistycznego w świetle ekonomii popytu i ekonomii podaży

Abstract

A point of departure for deliberations on this problem is a statement that the capitalist state undertook activities of welfare character guided by motives of socio-political nature. Till the thirties of the 20th century it had been treated in categories of cost that must be incurred to protect capitalist production relations. After the slump of the thirties, under influence of J. M. Keynes theory, the State began to resort to measures of the welfare policy in order to cushion consequences of economic recession and bring abour economic revival. State systems of welfare benefits cocreate in the capitalist economy a sector of guaranteed demand, which does not disappear even at times of a significant deterioration of business situation. They act as a buffor to recession. The renaissance of the neoclassical trend started in the mid seventies has pushed the welfare policy to its position from before the “Keynesian revolution”. Within economics of supply it becomes again a policy, which is indispensable only for sociopolitical reasons, and in a way it loses its economic properties. Giving priority to the market mechanism in relation to the state regulation representatives of economics of supply voice in favour of commercialization of welfare activity, its reprivatization and depriving it of characteristics of political activity.