The Future of the Welfare State

Introduction The Social, Political and Economic Future of the European Welfare States, Bent Greve; Part 1 European Welfare Perspective; Chapter 1 1This Chapter is heavily based on Chapter 9 of Cesaratto (forthcoming a)., Sergio Cesaratto; Chapter 2 Is there a Demographic Time-bomb?, Bent Greve; Chapter 3 A Market Imitating Employment Subsidy, Ralph S. Musgrave; Chapter 4 1The author gratefully acknowledges the Austrian Academy of Sciences for a DOC-grant and EPUNET for providing data access during a short research visit to the ESRI in Dublin., Matthias Till; Part 2 Global Perspectives; Chapter 5 1The translation has been made by http://stud.scient.adm. Ben Hope., Jesper Jespersen; Chapter 6 Inequality and Unemployment: Reflections on Theory and on Europe, James K. Galbraith; Chapter 7 International Finance for Development and the New Transnational Dimension of Welfare in Poor Countries, Marco Zupi; Chapter 8 From Globalisation to World Welfare: Established and Emerging Global Actors, Andrea Gallina;