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The Dynamic Welfare State accounts for the transition of social programming from governmental to corporate auspices, identifying not only the primary beneficiaries of emerging social markets, but the increasing influence of wealthy individuals and corporations in crafting public policy to meet industry requirements as well. Significantly, the degradation of social services, evident in the poverty trap, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and the school-to-prison pipeline contributes to public defection from the welfare state.

Machine generated contents note: List of Figures and Tables vi -- Notes on the Contributors vii -- Preface ix -- 1 The Politics of Welfare in Europe -- Peter Taylor-Gooby 1 -- 2 Earning Welfare Citizenship: Welfare State Reform -- in Finland and Sweden -- Virpi Timonen 29 -- 3 Reshaping the Social Policy-Making Framework in France -- Bruno Palier 52 -- 4 Stumbling towards Reform: The German Welfare State -- in the 1990s -- Frank Blnker and Hellmut Wollmann 75 -- 5 Spain, a Via Media of Welfare Development -- Luis Moreno 100 -- 6 Switzerland: Stubborn Institutions in a Changing Society -- Giuliano Bonoli 123 -- 7 Welfare Reform in the UK: the Construction of a Liberal -- Consensus -- Peter Taylor-Gooby 147 -- 8 Polity, Policy-Making and Welfare Futures -- Peter Taylor-Gooby 171 -- Bibliography 189 -- Index 204

This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both comparative analyses of topical issues, and in-depth studies of changes in the major European countries.

Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting equal opportunities through laws and policies : global progress and persisting challenges / Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague -- The sustainable development goals, domestic resource mobilization, and the poor / Nora Lustig -- Intra-household inequality and overall inequality / Ravi Kanbur -- Human capital, inequality, and growth / Torben M. Andersen -- The EU welfare state : past, present, and future / Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter -- Visible costs and hidden gains / Kalle Moene -- Social protection systems in Latin America : toward universalism and redistribution / José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga -- Social protection in Latin America : some challenges for reducing inequality / Ana Sojo -- Do competitive markets of individual savings accounts and health insurance work as part of the welfare state? / Andras Uthoff -- Innovations in protecting the old : mostly social insurance and some assets / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Universal basic income and the welfare state / Richard McGahey -- Employment guarantee in the age of precarity : the case of India's NREGA / Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev -- Contributors -- Index

The welfare state is not merely a stand-in for missing markets; it can do a whole lot more. When generations overlap and the young must borrow to make educational investments, a dynamically-efficient welfare state, by taxing the middle-aged and offering a compensatory old-age pension, can generate higher long-run human capital and welfare compared to laissez faire. Along the transition, no generation is hurt and some are better off. If an intergenerational human capital externality is present, unfunded pensions can be gradually phased out entirely. Public pension reform can be rationalized on efficiency grounds without relying on political-economy concerns or aging.

This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both comparative analyses of topical issues, and in-depth studies of changes in the major European countries