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Limits to globalization : welfare states and the world economy / Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried ; translation by Benjamin W. Veghte with the assistance of Elmar Rieger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rieger, Elmar.
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Cross-cultural studies.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Economic aspects.
- Public welfare--Economic aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Globalization.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, Mass. : Distributed in USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Summary:
- This text argues for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization.
- Contents:
- The non-economic preconditions of globalization
- Welfare state mercantilism
- Defensive globalization in the welfare state : foreign trade policy and social policy in the USA
- Two worlds of welfare democracy : global capitalism and social policy reform in Germany and the USA
- The welfare state and social policy in East Asia : religion and globalization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [336]-395) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745628508
- 0745628516
- OCLC:
- 50520513
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