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2: Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges (1st Edition) by Fritz W. Scharpf (Volume Editor), Vivien A. Schmidt (Editor) Paperback, 680 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-19-924092-2 / 0199240922 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924092-0 / 9780199240920 In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countr |