Real efforts at reconstruction, based on overly optimistic, and so overly expensive scenarios, and the incoherence of the stated objectives have caused distortions in the GDP which lead to deterioration in social conditions. Inequalities have worsened on all levels: in salaries, health and...

There are basically three stories about the globalisation-welfare state nexus. The first story argues that globalisation is the cause of the chronic crisis of the welfare state. As national economies open to the international market, governments are forced to adapt to the imperatives of global...