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• catalog abstract ""A new Cold War has developed between competing blocs of countries over the role of financial markets versus the state in the provision of pensions and the financing of the economy more generally." "An Anglo-American bloc, which has spread into South America, Australia, Canada and Japan, among other countries, favours private pension investment on stock markets. Proponents of this approach argue that it will be much more efficient and provide capital for corporate growth, thereby making pensions more viable through increasing financial returns for future pensioners. A European bloc, which covers most European countries other than the UK, favours state provision and much smaller role for stock markets in pensions' provision and in corporate relations with the financial sector. This model is, unsurprisingly, under threat from the World Bank, financial markets, and many senior academics in the US and Britain." "This book is the first to analyse comprehensively this situation. It argues that social provision and corporate relationships with the financial sector are inextricably linked, and moreover that the expansion of private pensions through stock markets has all the attendant consequences for the control of companies by investors on those markets who want to maximise individual financial returns as opposed to corporate growth. Indeed, the book comes to the conclusion that many of the arguments used in support of the Anglo-American approach are based not on improving pensions and economic growth but rather on how to promote stock markets themselves, a decidedly different matter."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12290899.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""A new Cold War has developed between competing blocs of countries over the role of financial markets versus the state in the provision of pensions and the financing of the economy more generally."".
• catalog description ""An Anglo-American bloc, which has spread into South America, Australia, Canada and Japan, among other countries, favours private pension investment on stock markets. Proponents of this approach argue that it will be much more efficient and provide capital for corporate growth, thereby making pensions more viable through increasing financial returns for future pensioners. A European bloc, which covers most European countries other than the UK, favours state provision and much smaller role for stock markets in pensions' provision and in corporate relations with the financial sector. This model is, unsurprisingly, under threat from the World Bank, financial markets, and many senior academics in the US and Britain."".
• catalog description ""This book is the first to analyse comprehensively this situation. It argues that social provision and corporate relationships with the financial sector are inextricably linked, and moreover that the expansion of private pensions through stock markets has all the attendant consequences for the control of companies by investors on those markets who want to maximise individual financial returns as opposed to corporate growth. Indeed, the book comes to the conclusion that many of the arguments used in support of the Anglo-American approach are based not on improving pensions and economic growth but rather on how to promote stock markets themselves, a decidedly different matter."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.".
• catalog description "Welfare Blocs and Pensions -- Financial Markets and Pension Funds -- Typologies of Capitalism and Welfare Systems -- The Opposing Claims of the Welfare Blocs -- The Capital-market Business -- Rates of Return and Welfare -- Manias, Panics and Pension Funds -- Arbitrage Capitalism -- The End of the Welfare State? -- Proposals for Change -- A 'Human Development Index' for Pension Funds.".
• catalog extent "xv, 240 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Cold war in welfare.".
• catalog identifier "1859846254 (cloth)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Cold war in welfare.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : VERSO,".
• catalog relation "Cold war in welfare.".
• catalog spatial "Commonwealth countries".
• catalog spatial "Commonwealth countries.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "331.25/2 21".
• catalog subject "HD7105.4 .M56 2001".
• catalog subject "Pension trusts Investments Commonwealth countries.".
• catalog subject "Pension trusts Investments Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "Pension trusts Investments United States.".
• catalog subject "Pension trusts Investments.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare Commonwealth countries Finance.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare Finance.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare Great Britain Finance.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare United States Finance.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Welfare Blocs and Pensions -- Financial Markets and Pension Funds -- Typologies of Capitalism and Welfare Systems -- The Opposing Claims of the Welfare Blocs -- The Capital-market Business -- Rates of Return and Welfare -- Manias, Panics and Pension Funds -- Arbitrage Capitalism -- The End of the Welfare State? -- Proposals for Change -- A 'Human Development Index' for Pension Funds.".
• catalog title "The cold war in welfare : stock markets versus pensions / Richard Minns.".
• catalog type "text".