Introduction

Lilia Costabile

A chapter in Institutions for Social Well-Being, 2008, pp 1-14 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The European Social Model is characterised by a highly developed social protection system devised to remedy certain economic and social failures (such as missing markets, incomplete and/or asymmetric information, inequality, poverty, lack of social cohesion) which may occur even in otherwise successful economies. This system of social protection is regarded by many as ‘one of the most successful social innovations of recent centuries’ (Atkinson, in this book, pp. 22–3).

Keywords: European Union; Welfare State; Nordic Country; Social Protection; Social Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584358_1

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