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Inequality and prosperity : social Europe vs. liberal America / Jonas Pontusson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell studies in political economyPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501713385
  • 1501713388
  • 0801489709
  • 9780801489709
  • 0801443512
  • 9780801443510
Other title:
  • Social Europe vs. liberal America
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inequality and prosperity.DDC classification:
  • 339.2/0982/1 22
LOC classification:
  • HC240.9.I5 P66 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 71.80
  • 83.21
  • MG 10910
  • MS 1530
  • QC 200
  • QX 200
  • POL 280f
  • WIR 450f
Online resources:
Contents:
Rethinking the trade-off between growth and equality -- Varieties of capitalism -- Income distribution and labor markets -- Employment performance -- Macro-economic management and wage bargaining -- Participation, security, mobility, and skills -- Welfare states, redistribution, and economic growth -- Welfare states in retrenchment -- Directions for progressive reform.
Summary: Jonas Pontusson opposes the notion of convergence: he believes that social-market economies can survive and flourish in the contemporary world economy. Among the areas he explores are labour-market dynamics, income distribution, wage bargaining and changing possibilities for the welfare state.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

Rethinking the trade-off between growth and equality -- Varieties of capitalism -- Income distribution and labor markets -- Employment performance -- Macro-economic management and wage bargaining -- Participation, security, mobility, and skills -- Welfare states, redistribution, and economic growth -- Welfare states in retrenchment -- Directions for progressive reform.

Jonas Pontusson opposes the notion of convergence: he believes that social-market economies can survive and flourish in the contemporary world economy. Among the areas he explores are labour-market dynamics, income distribution, wage bargaining and changing possibilities for the welfare state.

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