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This book presents a detailed analysis of the ways in which social and economic aspects of the welfare states in the Sweden, UK, Japan and US have altered under growing market-first ideology and economic globalization.

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• List of Figures(p. vii)
• List of Tables(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Acknowledgements(p. xiv)
• 1 Questions(p. 1)
• 1 Question--Weaker welfare state?(p. 1)
• 2 Focus of the Question--Trade-off between growth and welfare(p. 3)
• 3 Viewpoints(p. 6)
• 4 Past Arguments(p. 9)
• 4.1 Social Contract Theory--Rawls(p. 9)
• 4.2 Welfare State Theory(p. 12)
• Some Concluding Remarks for this Section(p. 22)
• 5 Outline of Argument(p. 23)
• 2 Civil Society and the Welfare State(p. 26)
• 1 Civil Society--Three virtues(p. 26)
• 2 Market Economy--Overwhelming competition(p. 33)
• 3 Welfare State--Recovery of social balance(p. 38)
• Additional Note--Some presumptions(p. 45)
• 3 Setback of the Welfare States--Sweden, UK, Japan, US(p. 47)
• 1 Prelude--Before the 1970s(p. 48)
• 2 Setback of the Welfare States--Since the 1980s(p. 58)
• 2.1 Viewpoints - wages, taxes, social contributions and profit rates(p. 59)
• 2.2 Analysis 1--policies, growth, and welfare in the 1980s and 1990s(p. 65)
• 2.3 Analysis 2--relations between policies, growth, and welfare(p. 93)
• 4 Arguments on the Future Welfare State(p. 110)
• 1 Government Leaders(p. 111)
• 2 Arguments by Non-government Writers(p. 141)
• 3 Questions Remaining(p. 166)
• 5 People's Choice(p. 169)
• 1 Revealed Preferences--Higher welfare and higher burden(p. 169)
• 2 Hidden Preferences--What increasing pathological social phenomena suggest(p. 180)
• 6 Toward a Citizens' Welfare State(p. 210)
• 1 Restoring the Social Balance--Long-term prospect(p. 210)
• 2 Restoring the Social Balance--Short-term prospect(p. 213)
• Conclusion(p. 216)
• Appendix Statistical Tables for Sweden, UK, Japan, US(p. 218)
• Bibliography(p. 232)
• Index(p. 245)