Welfare States and the Future

1. Introduction: Welfare States and the Future
B. Vivekanandan, Nimmi Kurian

2. Welfare States in Perspective
Pradip Bose

3. Economic Foundations of Welfare State Systems
Sandwip Kumar Das

4. A World Economy Based on the Welfare State Principle
Hartmut Elsenhans

5. Globalization and Welfare States
Ramesh Mishra

6. The British Welfare State: Development and Challenges
Tom Burden

7. The Welfare State System in France
Sophie Nadal

8. The Welfare State in Postwar Germany
Lutz Leisering

9. The Welfare State in Austria
Emmerich Talos, Marcel Fink

10. The Swedish Welfare State and New Challenges
Nimmi Kurian

11. Political Economy of the Finnish Welfare State
Jukka Pekkarinen

12. Challenges Facing the Danish Welfare State
Jørn Henrik Petersen

13. Modernization of the European Model of Social Protection
Joakim Palme

14. Recent Welfare Reforms in the United States
Asha Gupta

15. Canada’s Changing Welfare State
B. Vivekanandan

16. Welfare Designs and Peripheral Realities: The Brazilian Dilemma
Dilip Loundo

17. South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Welfare State
Albert J. Venter

18. The Welfare State in Japan and China: Development and Challenges
Christian Aspalter

19. The Welfare State System in India
Anand Kumar

Keywords: Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Politics of the Welfare State