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How societies learn : adapting the welfare state to the global economy / by Daniel Yankelovich ; with an introduction by Emil Uddhammar.
LIBRA HV91 .Y36 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yankelovich, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Social adjustment.
- United States.
- Public welfare--Sweden.
- Sweden.
- Social adjustment--United States.
- Social adjustment--Sweden.
- Welfare state.
- International economic relations--Social aspects.
- International economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Adapting the welfare state to the global economy
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2000]
- Summary:
- The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that individuals can learn, but can collectivities do likewise? More specifically, how can complex political systems adapt to a changing world? Yankelovich focuses specifically on the severe problems of the different attempts to treat welfare in the United States and Sweden.
- What kind of strategies can be attempted to accommodate these systems to the economic forces of globalization? Yankelovich answers by citing a version of trial and error in human affairs, a process of "lurch and learn." Yankelovich suggests that future changes in welfare systems will have to rely on mechanisms of reciprocity, rather than the claims of specific interest groups.
- Contents:
- 1. To the well-being of society 11
- 2. The global market economy 15
- 3. Promise and peril 19
- 4. The American response 23
- 5. The Swedish welfare state 30
- 6. Social learning 35
- 7. Lurch and learn 39
- 8. Applying social learning to the welfare state 43
- 9. Characteristics of the lurch 50
- 10. Reciprocity 57.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 1998 by the author and Stiftelsen City-universitetet"--T.p. verso.
- The first of the Hans L. Zetterberg lecture series delivered at the City University of Stockholm in 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63).
- ISBN:
- 0765806304
- OCLC:
- 40723665
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