The Associative Economy
Subtitle: Insights beyond the Welfare State and into Post-Capitalism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780312223809
Subjects: Capitalism; Welfare Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economic Conditions; Economics - General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Political Science / Economic Policy; Development - Economic Development; Production (Economic theory); Social change; Welfare state
Description: "The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of 'associative economy'.

In this economy, which can be termed 'post-industrial society', deep changes occur in the structure of consumption preferences, production modes, labour-market behaviour and the role played by the state."--BOOK JACKET.