Are Welfare States in crisis? Forty years after Gunnar Myrdal's seminal Beyond the Welfare State it is still little grasped in the 'reform' debate that the whole structure and economies of our societies are being transformed. This book reasserts the importance of a new employment and productive model - that of the 'associative economy' - which integrates social solidarity with economic planning.

Autorentext

Franco Archibugi is Professor of Economic Planning at the Graduate School of Public Administration, Rome.

Inhalt

List of Tables and Figures Chapter Sources Preface Introduction From Social Protection to Social Integration: A Glance to the Major Social Issues in the Advanced Countries PART I: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL CHANGE Structural Change: A Reappraisal of Various Approaches Structural Change: Toward a Convergence of the Approaches The Change in the Structure of Consumption and the 'Tertiarization' Process The Changes in the Structure of Production The Change in the Labour Market The Service Society versus The Industrial Society The Process of Redistribution in the Two Models of Society Expansion and Decline of Public Services PART II: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS OF THE CHANGE Beyond the Welfare State Beyond Capitalism? A New Social Model: The Associative Economy New Policies and Instruments Index