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So European states have no choice but to reduce their expenditures, and targeting welfare benefits that represent, on average, half of European public spending is the easiest way to bring immediate fiscal relief.
The welfare state will not vanish from Europe, but it is set to be scaled back – and focused on those who actually need help.
If one takes unemployment as the ultimate criterion, the European welfare state has brought a safety net to the middle class, but has mired 10% of its most vulnerable people in permanent welfare dependency.
Of course, a multitude of political reforms, each with potential positive implications for welfare, could reduce the extent of inequality further.
Even in northern England, many voters would be attracted to Scotland’s greater emphasis on social welfare.
While many Europeans admire America's devotion to freedom, they prefer policies at home that temper the liberal economic principles of individualism with a robust welfare state.
The basic problem is that the country’s super-generous welfare state (public spending amounts to about 57% of GDP in 2010, compared to 51% in the United Kingdom and 48% in Germany) stifles the growth needed for the euro to remain viable.
High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under-utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever-mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits.
In Western Europe, the welfare state helps these people.
But, given that the welfare state makes wages “sticky,” an increasing level of mass unemployment is the most likely consequence of globalization.
But such measures will merely worsen the situation: specialization in activities in which unskilled workers are not needed intensifies, even more capital will leave the country, and even more people will be attracted from abroad, driving more domestic residents into the welfare system.
Europe’s welfare system based on replacement incomes and minimum wages will not survive globalization.
The real question, then, is whether the European welfare state must die altogether.
A new welfare system that could preserve Europe’s social values would have to be based on wage supplements rather than replacement incomes.
When governments pay people while they work, rather than for them not to work, as is the case today, welfare benefits imply no minimum wage demands.
According to reasonable estimates for Germany by the Ifo Institute, a welfare system based on wage supplements will, indeed, be cheaper.
In the continental EU, establishment parties remain in power partly because their countries maintain extensive social welfare systems.
The MBA oath is an attempt to replace the Friedmanite view of the social responsibility of business with something quite different: a management profession that commits itself to promoting the long-term, sustainable welfare of all.
It built on the Friedman-Hayek conception of rolling back the social-democratic welfare state, but added a new set of ideas to the rudimentary state that remained--a state imbued solely with what Joseph Nye called "hard power."
But a tax cut could instead contract the welfare state – social assistance and social insurance, which constitute social wealth.
But the effectiveness of such tax cuts would be largely, if not wholly, transitory – especially if the welfare state was spared.
In a global information age, governance systems capable of addressing fundamental issues like security, welfare, liberty, and identity will require coalitions that are small enough to function efficiently and a decision concerning what to do about those who are underrepresented.
Still, Europe is far ahead of the US on farm-animal welfare.
The economist Thomas Palley sees it as a means of offsetting growth in income inequality, with access to cheap credit replacing the broken welfare guarantee of social democracy.
This tangible welfare gain would also include economic benefits.
The answer may hold enormous implications not only for intellectual growth, but also for human welfare.
Western Europeans work some 25% less than Americans, yet they have a level of social welfare (including climate) that is only around 15% lower than Americans, and they have more equal income distributions and lower poverty rates as well.
Thus, it is important to note how little - if any - ground America has gained relative to Europe in the past decade according to the yardstick of social welfare.
With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty-first-century post-sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.
They hope it will offer new means to improve social welfare at a time when financing their development needs has become increasingly difficult.
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