'This book serves a particularly useful purpose by questioning the conventional views on the future of the welfare states, especially in Europe, and by introducing new perspectives gleaned from economics, political science and sociology.' Claude Gnos, University of Burgundy, France
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Social, Political and Economic Future of the European
Welfare States
Bent Greve
Introduction
Globalisation and its Impact on Welfare States
The Ageing of Societies
Distributional Issues
Short Overview of the Chapters
Conclusion
Part 1 European Welfare Perspective
- A Tale of Two Pensions Reforms: A Sraffian View
- Is there a Demographic Time-bomb?
- A Market Imitating Employment Subsidy
- Pauperising Cities? Towards a Regional Framework for
EU Poverty Statistics
Part 2 Global Perspectives
- Welfare State and Uncertainty – Two Different Views
- Inequality and Unemployment: Reflections on Theory and on Europe
- International Finance for Development and the New Transnational
Dimension of Welfare in Poor Countries
- From Globalisation to World Welfare:
Established and Emerging Global Actors
Bibliography
Index