Rieger, Elmar.

Limits to globalization welfare states and the world economy / [Book :] Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried ; translation by Benjamin W. Veghte with the assistance of Elmar Rieger. - Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA : Polity ; Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003. - xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-395) and index.

The non-economic preconditions of globalization -- Welfare state mercantilism -- Defensive globalization in the welfare state : foreign trade policy and social policy in the USA -- Two worlds of welfare democracy : global capitalism and social policy reform in Germany and the USA -- The welfare state and social policy in East Asia : religion and globalization.

All Ages.

0745628508 0745628516 (pbk)

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Public welfare--Cross-cultural studies.
Public welfare--Economic aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Globalization.

HV40 / .R528 2003

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