Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution / Samuel Bowles, Pranab Bardhan, Michael Wallerstein
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
©2006

Copies

Description 1 online resource (352 p.) : 24 line illus. 24 tables
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Globalization and the Limits to Poverty Alleviation -- Chapter 2 Social Protection in a Supranational Context: European Integration and the Fates of the "European Social Model" -- Chapter 3 Threat Effects of Capital Mobility on Wage Bargaining -- Chapter 4 Constraints, Opportunities, and Information: Financial Market-Government Relations around the World -- Chapter 5 Egalitarian Redistribution in Globally Integrated Economies -- Chapter 6 Social Democracy as a Development Strategy -- Chapter 7 Globalization and Democracy -- Chapter 8 Between Redistribution and Trade: The Political Economy of Protectionism and Domestic Compensation -- Chapter 9 Public Opinion, International Economic Integration, and the Welfare State -- Chapter 10 Immigration and Redistribution in a Global Era -- Chapter 11 Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization, and the Politics of Social Insurance -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does not preclude social insurance and egalitarian redistribution--but it does change the mix of policies that can accomplish these ends. Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution demonstrates that the free flow of goods, capital, and labor has increased the inequality or volatility of labor earnings in advanced industrial societies--while constraining governments' ability to tax the winners from globalization to compensate workers for their loss. This flow has meanwhile created opportunities for enhancing the welfare of the less well off in poor and middle-income countries. Comprising eleven essays framed by the editors' introduction and conclusion, this book represents the first systematic look at how globalization affects policies aimed at reducing inequalities. The contributors are Keith Banting, Pranab Bardhan, Carles Boix, Samuel Bowles, Minsik Choi, Richard Johnston, Covadonga Meseguer Yebra, Karl Ove Moene, Layna Mosley, Claus Offe, Ugo Pagano, Adam Przeworski, Kenneth Scheve, Matthew J. Slaughter, Stuart Soroka, and Michael Wallerstein
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
Subject Equality -- Congresses
Income distribution -- Congresses
International economic integration -- Social aspects -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.
Equality
Income distribution
International economic integration -- Social aspects
Distribució de la renda.
Globalització.
Economia internacional.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Bardhan, Pranab, editor.
Bowles, Samuel, editor.
Wallerstein, Michael, editor.
ISBN 9780691220208
0691220204