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Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare and Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

John Zysman
John Zysman
Affiliation:
University of California Berkeley
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Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare. By Torben Iversen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226p. $29.99.

Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America. By Jonas Pontusson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 242p. $19.95.

Can policymakers reconcile the dual objectives of economic development and social justice? Are equity and sustained growth in an inherent conflict? How does the welfare system fit in a capitalist market economy? Jonus Pontusson and Torben Iversen provide two perspectives on these basic policy and political debates in interesting, well done, and quite complementary studies of comparative capitalism.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 215 - 217
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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