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Title

Globalization and egalitarian redistribution / edited by Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles & Michael Wallerstein.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ; New York, N.Y. : Russell Sage Foundation, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Bardhan, Pranab K.
• Bowles, Samuel.
• Wallerstein, Michael, 1951-
• Russell Sage Foundation.

Description

xii, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• International economic integration > Social aspects > Congresses
• Income distribution > Congresses
• Equality > Congresses

Note

• "Russell Sage Foundation, New York".
• Research from a workshop, "Persistent Inequality in a Competitive World," and from other projects funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to the Santa Fe Institute.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Globalization and the limits to poverty alleviation / Pranab Bardhan -- 2. Social protection in a supranational context : European integration and the fates of the "European social model" / Claus Offe -- 3. Threat effects of capital mobility on wage bargaining / Minsik Choi -- 4. Constraints, opportunities, and information : financial market-government relations around the world / Layna Mosley -- 5. Egalitarian redistribution in globally integrated economies / Samuel Bowles -- 6. Social democracy as a development strategy / Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein -- 7. Globalization and democracy / Adam Przeworski and Covadonga Meseguer Yebra -- 8. Between redistribution and trade : the political economy of protectionism and domestic compensation / Carles Boix -- 9. Public opinion, international economic integration, and the welfare state / Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter -- 10. Immigration and redistribution in a global era / Stuart Soroka, Keith Banting and Richard Johnston -- 11. Economic integration, cultural standardization, and the politics of social insurance / Samuel Bowles and Ugo Pagano.

ISBN

0691125198 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005049940

OCLC

• OCM60664438
• SCSB-5927461

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries