Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and the British welfare state after 1945 -- George Peden -- 3. Ordoliberalism, the Social Market Economy, and Keynesianism: Germany after 1945 -- Harald Hagemann -- 4. Non-Liberal Capitalism and a Liberal Welfare Regime? Japanese economists and the welfare state before the 1980s -- Tamotsu Nishizawa and Yukihiro Ikeda -- Part II. Neoliberalism and the changing understanding of the welfare state -- 5. Neo-liberalism -- from ideas to policy: some preliminary thoughts with particular reference to post-war Britain -- Neil Rollings -- 6. New Labour and neoliberalism -- Matt Beech -- 7. The Initiative for a New Social Market Economy and the transformation of the German welfare regime after unification? (1990) -- Daniel Kinderman -- 8. Neo-liberalism and Market-Disciplining Policy in the Koizumi Reform in Japan -- Juro Teranishi -- Part III. Varieties of Neoliberalism: International Dimensions -- 9. National vs Supranational Collective Goods. The Birth and Death of Neoliberal Pluralism -- Fabio Masini -- 10. Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Crisis -- Dieter Plehwe -- 11. Concluding Remarks