Veronese Passarella, M orcid.org/0000-0001-7652-5952 (2014) Welfare, mercato e piano. Critica del paradigma liberoscambista (Welfare State, Free Market and the Economic Planning. Critique to the Neoliberal Paradigm). Ragion Pratica, 42. pp. 9-34. ISSN 1720-2396
Abstract
In this article it is argued that the opposition "welfare or barbarism" is historically linked to the degree of globalization of advanced economies. It is also argued that the current trend is not the zeroing of the welfare state, but a radical re-definition of it along both "universalist" and "minimalist" lines. In fact, welfare state programmes are being reduced to a unique residual monetary benefit, whose function is to bridge the gap between the actual real wage and the minimum subsistence threshold of the working class. Against this background, the article provides a radical critique to the unconditional, and sometimes apologetic, acceptance of capitalist globalization and of its ideological superstructure, namely, the neo-liberal agenda. In addition, a different idea of the organisation of the economy is proposed, recovering and updating the concept of the "economic planning".
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Società Editrice il Mulino S.p.A. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Ragion Pratica. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Welfare State; Neoliberal Agenda; Economic Planning; Socialism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2018 10:11 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2018 10:11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Società Editrice il Mulino |
Identification Number: | 10.1415/76451 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137616 |