Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting...

The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and do too little. Though they impose enormous costs on societies, these restructurings are often not deep enough to provide the conditions for economic recovery (as illustrated by...