In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The...

It is widely assumed today that the "welfare state" is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subject in most developed countries. In this book, 15 authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the...

In diesem Band geht es um die gegenwärtige Situation des Wohlfahrtsstaates in offenen Weltmärkten. Die These lautet: Erst der massive Ausbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates hat die Regierungen der westlichen Länder in die Lage versetzt, sich unkontrollierbaren äußeren Risiken zu öffnen, etwa den...