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Cato Video • February 11, 2008 

# Daniel Shapiro argues against the welfare state. 

In his new book, *Is The Welfare State Justified?*, philosopher Daniel Shapiro insightfully combines moral and political philosophy with contemporary social science to argue that proponents of the welfare state — egalitarians, communitarians, and liberals alike — have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than most people realize. 

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