On 1/24/2021 3:47 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
The term “Keynesian state” has become a catchword that covers a
variety of concepts and is usually misleading. It may have some
meaning for the Scandinavian countries and elsewhere. But the United
States?... The notion of the “Keynesian Welfare State” has tended to
disguise the fact that what really turned the tide was not social
welfare...
In 1990, a book by Gosta Esping-Andersen picked up on these
distinctions. /The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism /distinguished
between genuine Scandinavian social democracy, a conservative
middle-European welfare state and the neoliberal Anglo-Saxon regime
type.//(A brief updated version is in this 2016 paper
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287249089_Economic_Inequality_and_the_Welfare_State>.)
//
At min 5 in this lecture <https://vimeo.com/435456207> to my bureaucrat
students, I try to sum up his distinctions (and South African
applications) in six quick minutes, so feedback is welcome:
https://vimeo.com/435456207
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