Since two decades processes of search for new social and economic orders can be observed throughout the world, including the USA and the member-countries of the European Community. The author examines for the USA as well as for the Federal Republic of Germany the causes underlying this search...

Referring to publications of his own from previous years on the crisis and reform of the German "Sozialstaat" (welfare state) the author deals with the question, whether and how the welfare state can be preserved. He critically describes the discussion on the crisis of the welfare state since...