Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism - Softcover

Et Al, Goodin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521596394 ISBN 13: 9780521596398

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Full description

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Review:

"...a distinctive and important book." Robert M. Solow, The New York Review of Books

"...significant contribution of this book is its clear elaboration of the social and political values underlying welfare states and how these vary across welfare regimes." American Journal of Sociology

"This is an innovative and stimulating study of the difference made by the type of welfare state regime under which individuals actually live. As an empirical study, it provides a major contribution to comparative welfare state research." Governance

"This book will engage readers intrigued with the different forms that capitalism can take, and reformers searching for ways in which it can be made more humane...There is much to recommend here...Footnotes provide rich extensions of points of dispute and some alternative views, and useful links to related material...this study provides eye-opening examples of other ways to do capitalism...For a world that seems to be growing tired of neoliberal precepts, this study of other ways to live with capitalism will be most welcome." Review of Radical Political Economics

Book Description:

This book traces how individuals have fared over ten years in each of the three principal types of welfare state. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime on a range of measures.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521596394
• ISBN 13: 9780521596398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372