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Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also
the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. Most
analyses believe the the emerging postindustrial society is overdetermined by massive,
convergent forces, such as tertiarization, new technologies, or globalization, all
conspiring to make welfare states unsustainable in the future.
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies takes a second, more sociological
and more institutional look at the driving forces of economic transformation. What,
as a result, stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence. Macroscopic,
global trends are undoubtedly powerful, yet their influence is easily rivalled by
domestic institutional traditions, by the kind of welfare regime that, some generations
ago, was put in place. It is, however, especially the family economy that hold the
key as to what kind of postindustrial model will emerge, and to how evolving tradeoffs
will be managed.
Twentieth-century economic analysis depended on a set of sociological assumptions
that, now are invalid. Hence, to better grasp what drives today's economy, we must
begin with its social foundations.
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