Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David Foden and Peter Morris
  • Economic globalisation : the need for a social dimension / John Evans
  • Social policy and economic performance / Allan Larsson
  • Will the success of the German model be its undoing? / Jurgen Hoffmann
  • The high road to development : Japan and the stakeholder agenda / Sadahiko Inoue and Fujikazu Suzuki
  • The political economy of Europe / Paul Ormerod
  • Restoring prosperity : why the US model is not the answer for the US or Europe / Thomas J. Palley
  • The human development enterprise : pushing beyond stakeholderism / Guy Standing
  • Welfare, security and economic performance / Peter Cassells
  • Working time and employment / Bettina Agathonos-Mähr.
  • Social security : class struggle from above? / Heiner Gansmann
  • Japan as the first non-Western welfare state / Sadahiko Inoue
  • Tax and public finance : some issues from a UK Left perspective / Dan Corry
  • Recent tax reforms in Norway--what have we learned? / Eystein Gjelsvik
  • Should Europe import US supply-side economics? / Max B. Sawicky
  • The role of trade unions in an interdependent world / Bill Jordan
  • What can civil society do? / Linda Tarr-Whelan
  • NGOs and trade unions : a useful collaboration? / Giampiero Alhadeff
  • Economic growth and social justice in the global economy : political challenges, policy choices / David Kusnet and Robert Taylor.