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>Please pass this on to your list: with kind regards >Arno Tausch > >Announcing from NOVA > >http://www.nexusworld.com/nova/ > > >1) Global Keynesianism: Unequal Exchange and Global Exploitation >by Gernot Kohler Arno Tausch > >List Price: $69.00 > >Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 1590330021 > > > >2) Globalization and European Integration >by Arno Tausch Peter Herrmann > >List Price: $59.00 > >Hardcover (January 2002) >Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 1560729295 > > >Book Description >This study is the outcome of empirical research on the development and decay >tendencies of the capitalist world economy since the early 1980s and the >role that Europe will play in these constellations. Over these years the >conclusion was reached that the logic of capitalist world development >changes with the ups and downs of longer Kondratieff cycles, and that >different periods of hegemony and of world political constellations, >connected with these Kondratieff cycles, in turn give rise to different >constellations of world economic ascent and decline. Those that hoped that >world trade and open financial markets would shift incomes in favor of the >poor, must now recognize that - however we look at the figures - there is a >tendency towards rising poverty on a global scale, especially after the >Asian crash of 1997. > > > >3) The three pillars of wisdom? A reader on globalization, World Bank >pension models and welfare society. > >Arno Tausch (Ed) > >with contributions by > >John Turner, Robert Holzmann, Franz Rothenbacher, Jeja Pekka Roos, Walter >Cadette, Göran Normann, Daniel J. Mitchell, Martin Rein, Gemma Abío, Joan >Gil, Concepció Patxot, Gerhard Buczolich, Bernhard Felderer, Reinhard Koman, >Andreas Ulrich Schuh, Eva Belabed, Stephen J. Kay, Syed Mansoob Murshed, >Gordon Laxer, Frank Stilwell, Ted Wheelwright, Kunibert Raffer, Arno Tausch, >The Twelve Theses of New Delhi > > >© Nova Science > >Huntington, New York, 2002 (now forthcoming) > >Contributors 6 >Foreword 9 >Introductory essay: Social Policy and social security in an Age of >Globalization 10 >Arno Tausch 10 >Part I Social Protection in an Era of the Waning Welfare State 81 >Social Security Development and Reform around the World 81 >John Turner 81 >A Provocative Note on Coverage in Public Pension Schemes 96 >Robert Holzmann 96 >The Changing Public Sector in Europe: Social Structure, Income and Social >Security 111 >Franz Rothenbacher 111 >The consequences of the crisis of the 1990s to the Nordic Welfare State: >Finland and Sweden 118 >Jeja Pekka Roos 118 >Part II Three pillar pension systems 132 >Social Security Privatization - A Bad Idea 133 >Walter M. Cadette 133 >Pension Reform in Sweden: lessons for American Policymakers 139 >Göran Normann and Daniel Mitchell 139 >Public-Private Interactions: Mandatory Pensions in Australia, the >Netherlands and Switzerland 156 >Martin Rein and John Turner 156 >The Viability of the Spanish Social Security System: A Generational >Accounting Perspective 193 >Gemma Abío; Joan Gil and Concepció Patxot 193 >Pension reform in Austria 209 >Gerhard Buczolich, Bernard Felderer, Reinhard Koman, Andreas Ulrich Schuh >209 >Pension Reform Why ? How ? What for ? 232 >Eva Belabed 232 >Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Social >Security Reform Lessons Learned in Other Countries 245 >Stephen Kay 245 >TAX COMPETITION, GLOBALIZATION AND DECLINING SOCIAL PROTECTION 253 >S Mansoob Murshed 253 >Part III: Globalization and Welfare Society 271 >Transnational Corporations, Social Capital Funds and Location Commitment >272 >Gordon Laxer 272 >Globalisation: Driving forces and political responses. what role for pension >funds? 294 >Frank Stilwell 294 >Developments in the Global Economy and their Effects on Australia 304 >Ted Wheelwright 304 >Globalization and Financial markets 312 >Kunibert Raffer 312 >Part IV - Empirical Analyses about the Relationship between Pension Reform >and Economic Growth 330 >World Bank Pension reforms and global capitalism. macro-quantitative >Analyses of their effects on social welfare 331 >Arno Tausch 331 >Part V - The Need for Global Welfare 333 >GLOBALIZATION, CONFLICT, VULNERABILITY & THE NEED FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION IN >THE NEW MILLENNIUM 334 >S Mansoob Murshed 334 >Final Declaration Twelve Theses of New Delhi 335 >Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, International Seminar on Welfare >State Systems: Development and Challenges 9 - 11 April 2001 335 >Part VI: Interdisciplinary Bibliography: Globalization and Social Policy >336 >Arno Tausch 336 > > > >Contributors > > > >John Turner is researcher at the Public Policy Institute of the American >Association of Retired People, AARP, in Washington D.C. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Robert Holzmann is professor of economics at Saarbruecken University >(Germany) (presently on leave) and is Director of the Social Protection >Department of the Human Development Network of the World Bank. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Franz Rothenbacher is a sociologist at the Mannheim Centre for European >Social Research (MZES). > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Jeja Pekka Roos is professor of Social Policy at Helsinki University. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Walter Cadette is a senior researcher at the Jerome Levy Institute of >Economics in New York, USA. He is a retired vice president of J.P. Morgan & >Co. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Göran Normann is associate professor of Economics at the University of Lund, >Sweden and President of Normann Economics International based in Stockholm >and Paris. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Daniel J. Mitchell is researcher at the Heritage Foundation in Washington >D.C., USA. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Martin Rein is professor of social policy at the Massachusetts Institute of >Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Gemma Abío is an assistant professor at the Grup de Recerca en Economia de >la Política Social in the Departament de Teoria Econòmica, Facultat de >Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona >University). > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Joan Gil is an associate professor at the Grup de Recerca en Economia de la >Política Social in the Departament de Teoria Econòmica, Facultat de Ciències >Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona University). > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Concepció Patxot is an assistant professor at the Grup de Recerca en >Economia de la Política Social in the Departament de Teoria Econòmica, >Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Barcelona >(Barcelona University). > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Gerhard Buczolich is a Ministerial Counselor in the Federal Ministry of >Social Security and Generations in Austria. He is Deputy Director of the >Department for Bilateral and International Social Security of that Ministry. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Bernhard Felderer is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in >Vienna, Austria. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reinhard Koman is researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in >Vienna, Austria. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Andreas Ulrich Schuh is researcher at the Department of Economics at the >Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Eva Belabed is Managing Director of the ISW (Institute for Social Science >and Economics) and Head of the Department for European Affairs at Austrian >Chamber of Labour in Upper Austria. She is also a member of the European >Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. > >Belabed Eva[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] <mailto:[smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> > >Stephen J. Kay is a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, >Georgia, USA. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ><mailto:[smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Syed Mansoob Murshed is associate professor of development economics at the >Institute for Social Studies in The Hague and at the United Nations World >Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Gordon Laxer is professor of political economy at the University of Alberta, >Canada. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Frank Stilwell is professor of Political Economy at Sydney University, >Australia. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Ted Wheelwright is professor emeritus of Economics and Geography at Sydney >University and director of the Transnational Corporations Research Project, >Sydney, Australia. > >Chris Williams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ><mailto:[smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> > >Kunibert Raffer is associate professor of Economics at Vienna University, >Austria. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Arno Tausch is Ministerial Counselor in the Ministry of Social Security and >Generations in Vienna, Austria, and an Associate Visiting Professor of >Political Science at Innsbruck University. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >In an age of uncertainty and change, it is the task of social science at >least to present solid evidence that allows a beam of light into the >darkness. One might be tempted, perhaps to state that in the morning of >September 11th 2001 in Manhattan, globalization had reached its limits, and >that from now on, like during the 1920s, the pendulum swings again against >the principle of the market economy on a global scale. > >Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when first in the Pacific rim >countries a new phase of world-wide capitalism began to take shape, and >spread globally, and throughout the world neo-liberalism substituted >Keynesianism as the main economic paradigm, moves to radically change the >hitherto existing public pension models, that were based on contributions >paid in a particular year by current workers (Pay-As-You-Go, PAYGO >financing), gathered speed. > >The demographic changes that are ahead of us additionally increase the >importance of regulations concerning the incomes and the economic fortunes >of the elderly. > >Thus we are confronted with a deep and thorough re-writing of the social >contract that evolved in the late 19th Century and guaranteed the welfare of >the elderly in a great number of countries. > >Not only in Latin America, where Chile under the generals paved the way, but >also in East Central Europe after the end of communism, and even in some >former advanced welfare democracies like Australia, Denmark, the >Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom far-reaching measures to >reform the PAYGO-pension systems were introduced. The list of countries with >privatisation or pre-funding of the pension system grows longer and longer, >and even in Sweden, the classic example of a Keynesian social welfare state >from the 1930s onwards, the pension system has been drastically reformed. >There are 18 countries, according to the World Bank study Brooks and James; >that fully introduced a three pillar, funded model, and many of them in >addition introduced notional pension accounts following the Swedish model >(see Normann and Mitchell in this volume). These two criteria would be >sufficient to talk about a real 'World Bank pension reform'. The World Bank >thus starts from the assumption, that the following countries have reformed >their pension systems in the direction of a three-pillar model: > > >Argentina >Australia >Bolivia >Chile >Colombia >Croatia >Denmark >El Salvador >Hungary >Kazakhstan >Mexico >Netherlands >Peru >Poland >Sweden >Switzerland >United Kingdom >Uruguay > > > >Ever since the days of German Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck >(1815-1898), the idea of social security and the capitalist state are >closely linked. Radical moves to change the balance, established by the >public pension systems, require the closer attention not only of the >international social policy debate, but also of the world systems research >community. There is no doubt that in the United States under President Bush >and in the remaining countries of the European Union, and in many other >states around the globe, the conversion of still existing public PAYGO >pension systems to (partially) funded pension systems, especially those >based on a compulsory funding system, will further intensify and gather >speed. > >The present volume tries to close this gap. The reader thus is intended to >bring together two discussion strings - the world systems debate and the >pension reform debate that rarely met each other before. The basic message >of the reader is that - however we evaluate the funded pension reform >alternatives-, they will qualitatively and quantitatively become a major >force in the capitalist world economy and that they will transform the >nature of the capitalist system substantially over the coming years. > >In itself, moves to radically alter existing pension systems would merit the >attention of world systems research. For Volker Bornschier (1996), the core >countries-grouped around the triad formed by the United States, Japan, and >the European Union - have experienced successive waves of change marked by >phases of ascent, unfolding, and decay of societal models, of which social >security along the lines of the PAYGO-model formed and integral part. What >according to Bornschier seemed stable and predictable in past decades came >close to collapse or broke down entirely. A new order, with a fresh, basic >consensus around an overarching set of norms that allows problems to be >solved efficiently, has not yet crystallized. The role of social security >would play an integral part in such a consensus, and our volume is dedicated >to this question. > >Bornschier's seminal work (1996) Western Society in Transition should be >especially mentioned in this context as an examination of the succession of >societal models of the Western world and indications of its probable shape >in the future. Bornschier's central question is how a social order does >arise and why does it dissolve? What provides social cohesion? What makes >society progress? We can start from the safe assumption that the PAYGO >systems will be substituted in a majority of countries by funded and >(partially) privatized schemes in future. But what consequence will this >have for the rise and decline of nations, and for social cohesion? However >much world systems research paid attention to the rise of the social welfare >state in earlier periods, and to such phenomena as corporatism and fordism, >that characterized the long cycle of development from the 1930s to the >1980s, there is as yet no coherent and systematic approach to study the >effects of what might become the substitution of one of the main features of >the capitalist state in the center, the system of public social security, by >a new and completely different system. > >4) now available in paperback: Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology, and >the Social Sciences : An Analysis of the Contradictions of Modernity at the >Turn of the Millennium > >Nova Science, paperback, January 2002 > > > >Book Description >At a time of the profound crisis of the world capitalist system, a group of >social scientists and theologians takes up anew the issue of liberation >theology. Having arisen out of the struggle of the poor Churches in the >world's South, its pros and cons dominated the discourse of the Churches >throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s. Then, dependency theory was >considered to be the analytical tool at the basis of liberation theology. >But the world economy - since the Fall of the Berlin Wall - has dramatically >changed to become a truly globalized capitalist system in the 1990s. Even in >their wildest imaginations, social scientists from the dependency tradition >and theologians alike would not have predicted for example the elementary >force of the Asian and the Russian crisis of today. The Walls have gone, but >poverty and social polarization spread to the center countries. After having >initially rejected Marxist ideology in many of the liberation theology >documents, the Vatican and many other Christian Church institutions moved >forward in the 1980s 1990s to strongly declare their "preferential option >for the poor". Now, the authors of this book, among them Samir Amin, one of >the founders of the world system approach, take up the issues of this >preferential option anew and arrive at an ecumenical vision of the dialogue >between theology and world system theory at the turn of the new millenium. > > >Contents: >Contents: Introduction; 1 Introduction (Andreas Müller, Arno Tausch & Paul >M. Zulehner); Towards an ecumenical view of capitalism and the religions of >the Book ; 2 Judaism, Christianism, Islam. (Samir Amin); Formulating a >Liberation Theology agenda of the 1990s and beyond; 3 Economics and >Theology. Reflections on the Market, Globalization, and the Kingdom of God >(Jung Mo Sung); 4 Saint Francis and Capitalist Modernity: A View from the >South (Alberto Moreira); 5 Feminism in the Country of Liberation Theology >(Krystyna Tausch); 6. Ethical, biblical and theological aspects of the debt >burden (Andreas F. Müller OFM); The lessons of critical development >research and the contemporary capitalist world system; 7 The Heritage of >Raúl Prebisch for a Humane World (Steffen Flechsig); 8 Liberation Theology >and the Social Sciences: Seven Hypotheses about the World Capitalist System >in Our Age (Arno Tausch); Appendix to Chapter 8; 9 Development in the Light >of Recent Debates about Development Theory (Mansoob Murshed); 10 New Forms >of Dependency in the World System (Kunibert Raffer); The challenges of >globalization and transnational integration; 11 Towards a Theology of the >Democratization of Europe (Severin Renoldner); 12 The Race to the Bottom >(Robert J. Ross); 13 New departures. On the social positioning of the >Christian Churches before and after communism in Central and Eastern Europe >(Paul Michael Zulehner); Statistical Appendix - Poverty, Dependency, Human >Rights Violations and Economic Growth in the World System; Literature: An >Attempt at an Ecumenical and Cross-Cultural Bibliography > > > > > > > > >
