Inequality and Prosperity - Social Europe Vs. Liberal America

Klappentext Pontusson opposes the notion of inevitable convergence: he believes that social-market economies can survive and indeed flourish in the contemporary world economy. He bases his argument on an enormous amount of highly specialized research on eighteen countries, using national-level data for the last thirty years. Among the areas he explores are labor-market dynamics, income distribution, employment performance, wage bargaining, firm-level performance, and the changing possibilities for the welfare state. Zusammenfassung What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonas Pontusson
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.12.2005
• EAN: 9780801443510
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4351-0
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Cornell Studies in Political Economy; Cornell Studies in Political E; Cornell Studies in Political Economy; Cornell Studies in Political E
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; Europa, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politik und Staat