Postwar political consensus held that cost could no longer excuse refusing social reform

Evidence

First, and most critically, emancipation from impersonal economic laws meant that social reforms could no longer be “delayed or refused sanction on the grounds of expense” (Addison 1918, 1). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 250

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar reconstructionists rejected budget constraints as limits on social policy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 332