Date: 2000
Type: Contribution to book
Building a sustainable welfare state : reconciling social justice and growth in the advanced economics
Progressive governance for the XXI century : conference proceedings, Florence, 20th and 21st November 1999, Florence : European University Institute, [2000], pp. 145-167
FERRERA, Maurizio, RHODES, Martin John, Building a sustainable welfare state : reconciling social justice and growth in the advanced economics, in Progressive governance for the XXI century : conference proceedings, Florence, 20th and 21st November 1999, Florence : European University Institute, [2000], pp. 145-167
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The conciliation of economic growth - with its demanding 'efficiency' imperatives - and social justice - with its equally demanding call for 'equality' - has been one of the most significant achievements of the 'long' twentieth century, now coming to a close. On both sides of the Atlantic, the welfare state (and, more specifically, social insurance) is the main institutional manifestation of this success story. Yet, today it is the object of heated controversy in all of the advanced economies. The 'conciliatory' capacity of the welfare state has been put in serious question, especially in the light of the so-called 'globalisation' process. More and more frequently, efficiency and equality, growth and redistribution , competitiveness and solidarity are referred to as polar opposites that can only thrive at each other's expenses. There is therefore a risk that the new millennium will open under the shadow of a resurrected 'big trade-off', offering only two possible coherent value-combinations and thus virtually only one viable institutional scenario, if functional priorities ('the pie first') are to be respected.
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Background paper prepared by the European University Institute for the 'Progressive governance for the XXI century' seminar, organized jointly by the European University Institute and New York University, in collaboration with the CeSPI, the IAI and the ISPI, on 20-21 November.
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Publisher: European University Institute
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