The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

by Ruud Muffels, Bruce Headey, Robert E. Goodin

Book Overview

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through a unique analysis of panel data from Germany, the Netherlands and the US, tracking individuals' socio-economic fate over fully ten years, Goodin, Headey, Muffels and Dirven explore issues of economic growth and efficiency, of poverty and inequality, of social integration and social autonomy. It is common to talk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521596394
• ISBN13: 9780521596398
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"