📚 Welfare State

Books with welfare state on their catalogue record, first published between 1860 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject welfare state in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,850 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Unto This Last	John Ruskin	1860	125
	Free to choose	Milton Friedman	1980	28
	American social welfare policy	Howard Jacob Karger	1990	28
	Beyond the welfare state?	Christopher Pierson	1991	11
	The end of the welfare state?	Stefan Svallfors	1999	9
	Society & social policy	Ramesh Mishra	1977	8
	Understanding social policy	Michael J. Hill	1980	8
	Locus of Care	Peregrine Horden	1997	8
	Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State	Bent Greve	2012	8
	THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION	POLANYI	1944	7
	Social Democracy and Rational Choice	Henry Milner	2002	7
	Welfare and the State	N. Deakin	2003	7
	Normative Foundations of the Welfare State	Nanna Kildal	2005	7
	Tax policy and labor market performance	Jonas Agell	2006	7
	Liberalism, neoliberalism, social democracy	Mark Olssen	2009	7
	Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea	Jae-Jin Yang	2010	7
	The Foot Book	Devaki Berkson	1977	6
	The economics of the welfare state	Barr, N. A.	1987	6
	Beyond left and right	Anthony Giddens	1994	6
	Social Capitalism	Kees van Kersbergen	1995	6
	The Five Giants	Nicholas Timmins	1996	6
	The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes	Christian Albrekt Larsen	2006	6
	Welfare, Right and the State	David P. Levine	2007	6
	Political Philosophy and Social Welfare	Raymond Plant	2009	6
	Whose Welfare	Tony Cole	2013	6
	Ideology and Social Welfare	Victor George	2013	6
	Welfare State Capitalst Society	Ramesh Mishra	2014	6
	Dependency Culture	Hartley Dean	2014	6
	Man vs. the welfare state	Henry Hazlitt	1969	5
	The philosophy of welfare	Richard Morris Titmuss	1987	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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