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NEW BOOK: "the incomplete revolution"

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women - the ‘incomplete revolution' of our time; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge economy; and, third, how we respond to the new demography, in particular low fertility and an ageing population.

In this new book Gøsta Esping-Andersen - the leading analyst of the welfare state - examines how different societies have responded to these challenges. It focuses especially on the quest for gender equality, on the role of families in the reproduction of social inequalities, and on major inequities associated with an ageing population. Through comparative analysis he seeks to identify the kinds of welfare state reform that can optimize not only individuals' life chances but also collective welfare. The intellectual ambition is, in other words, to identify the mainsprings of a new and superior form of social equilibrium.

This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with gender and the changing role of women, with social and public policy, and with the future of the welfare state

You can read more and purchase this book here.

  

Other books

  • Trois Lecons sur L"Etat Providence (with Bruno Palier). Paris: Le Seuil. 2008 (buy on-line)
  • Family Formation and Low Fertility. Madrid: BBVA. 2006
  • Why We Need a New Welfare State (with D. Gallie, A.Hemerijck and J. Myles). Oxford. 2002
  • A Welfare State for the 21st Century. Sakurai-Shoten. 2002
  • Why Deregulate Labour Markets? (with M. Regini). Oxford. 2000. 
  • Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford. 1999 (translation in Italian Japanese and Spanish)
  • Welfare States in Transition: Social Security in a Global Economy. Sage. 1996.
  • Changing Classes: Social Stratification in Postindustrial Europe and North America (editor, contributor). Sage. 1993.
  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Polity Press. Princeton University  Press. 1990. (transation in Chinese, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean)
  • Stagnation and Renewal: The Rise and Fall of Social Policy Regimes (edited with M. Rein & L. Rainwater). M.E. Sharpe. 1987.
  • Politics against Markets. Princeton University Press. 1985.
  • Political Power and Social Theory (Volume 3) (edited with R. Friedland). JAI Press. . 1982.
  • Social Class, Social Democracy And State Policy. New Social Science, Mongraphs (Copenhagen). 1980.
Chapters in Edited Volumes

2009

  • 'The welfare state and redistribution'. In W. Salverda, B. Nolan and T. Smeeding, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford University Press

2007

  • “Social inheritance and equal opportunity policies”. Pp. 398-408 in H. Lauder et.al, eds. Education, Globalization and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • “Rethinking the welfare state”. Pp. 147-71 in N. Pierce and J. Margo, eds. Politics for a New generation. Palgrave, Macmillan.
  • ”L’etat-providence aujourd’hui: interet et enjeux”. Pp. 119-25 in E. Dutarte, ed. Raymond Aron et la Democratie au XXI Siecle. Paris: Editions de Fallois.
  • “Childhood investments and skill formation”. International Tax and Public Finance, 15: 14-49.

2006

  • “Equity in education. Sweden” (with Ides Nicaise, Beatriz Pont and Pat Tunstall). Social Affairs and Labor Market Analysis. Paris: OECD.
  • “Los dilemmas de la redistribucion en los estados de bienestar” (con Sebastian Sarasa). Pp. 693-720 in J. Ruiz-Huerta, ed. Politicas Publicas y Distribución de la Renta. Madrid: BBVA.
  • “More equality and fewer opportunities?” Chapter 10 in D. Held and A. Kaysa, eds. Global Inequality. Patterns and Explanations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • “Boern I velfaerdsstaten- investeringer I fremtiden”. Pp. 169-89 in B. Gravesen, ed. Holdbar Velfaerd for Kommende Generationer. Copenhagen: Sohn.
  • “Welfare states in the 21st Century”. In C. Pierson and F. Castles, eds. The Welfare State Reader. 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • ”Familepolitikk og den nye demografien”. Pp. 14-40 in N. Kildal and K. Elvbakken, eds. Velfaerdspolitiske Udfordringer. Olso: Abstrakt Forlag

2005

  • “Sustainable and equitable retirement in a life course perspective”. Chapter 42 in G. Clark, A. Munnell, and J. Orzag, eds. Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • “Income distribution and Equality of Opportunities”. In A. Giddens and P. Diamond, eds. The Egalitarian Challenge. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • “Comparative and historical studies of public policy and the welfare state” (con A. Hicks), en Handbook of Political Sociology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005: 509-525).
  • “Untying social inheritance”. Pp 181-189 In Actes des Rencontres Economiques. Conceil d’Analyse Economique. Paris (2005).
  • “Education and equal life chances: investing in children”. Pp. 147-63 in O. Kangas and J. Palme, eds. Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries. London: Sage (2005).
  • “A jobless and childless Europe?” Pp. 269-75 in T. Boeri, D del Boca and C. Pissaridis, eds. Women at Work. An Economic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005).
  •  “Weakening the impact of social inheritance”. Actes de Rencontres Economquies. Conceil d’Analyse Economique, Paris: Pp 181-189
      

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