Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Samuel Bowles
• Ugo Pagano
• Michael Wallerstein
• Pranab Bardhan

Titel

Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization, and the Politics of Social Insurance

Ist Teil von

• Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution, 2020, p.289

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Does the freer movement of goods, people, ideas, and money across national boundaries mean that, as Charles Kindleberger (1969: 207) put it, “the nation state is just about through as an economic unit” when it comes to the provision of social insurance and programs of egalitarian redistribution? Surely globalization will not eliminate the conditions—economic insecurity and distributions of income widely thought to be unfair—that initially gave rise to the welfare state. What form will responses to these conditions take in a globally integrated economy? The thesis we will advance is this. Globalization is an extension of nationalism (not