The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state.
The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.
- Table of Contents
- Acronyms
- Preface
- Part I
- 1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- 2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, by Sandra Polaski
- 3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection, by Isabel Ortiz
- 4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges, by Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague
- 5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor, by Nora Lustig
- 6. Intra-Household Inequality and Overall Inequality, by Ravi Kanbur
- 7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth, by Torben M. Andersen
- Part II
- 8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future, by Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter
- 9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains, by Kalle Moene
- 10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution, by José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga
- 11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality, by Ana Sojo
- 12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State?, by Andras Uthoff
- 13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets, by Teresa Ghilarducci
- 14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State, by Richard McGahey
- 15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s NREGA, by Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev
- Contributors
- Index
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