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Is the European Welfare State Unsustainable?

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Equity, Efficiency and Growth

Part of the book series: Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy ((CICETP))

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The future of the welfare state is righdy perceived as a major problem for advanced societies, particularly for western European ones. Some aspects of this broad problem exceed the strict domain of economics; but economists are clearly the first ones to be involved. They have now, and they will have in the next decades, to study in depth the welfare state and its adaptation to changing circumstances.

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  1. CREST, Paris, France

    Edmond Malinvaud

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  1. University ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy

    Mario Baldassarri (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. University ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy

    Luigi Paganetto (Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) (Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)

  3. Columbia University, New York, USA

    Edmund S. Phelps (McVickar Professor of Political Economy) (McVickar Professor of Political Economy)

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Malinvaud, E. (1996). Is the European Welfare State Unsustainable?. In: Baldassarri, M., Paganetto, L., Phelps, E.S. (eds) Equity, Efficiency and Growth. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24649-6_10

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