Market greed

Author: Klaus Koch
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Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Features: Since the 1970s, European society has consistently faced the dilemma: whether to abandon policies of full employment to ensure social efficiency or to persist with policies of full employment to maintain the traditional welfare state, sacrificing social efficiency in the process. Klaus Koch conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of this dilemma in European society from the perspectives of social structure, state functions, market competition, and more. With profound insight, hes the underlying contradictions hidden in the employment, welfare, and insurance systems of Western European society. Some say that the second major task for China after ensuring food and clothing is employment. How should we address this? China is in the construction phase of a socialist market economy system. As it moves toward a socialist market economy, how should the government and the market be integrated to mutually promote each other? The Chinese government is making great efforts to build a social security system. In this process, how can we achieve fairness without sacrificing efficiency? From this book, we may gain valuable insights. In Europe, large-scale unemployment has become a social phenomenon, and the trend is growing; various forms of welfare states are gradually declining. Klaus Koch authentically documents the unembellished reality of labor society in Europe in this book and provides a thorough analysis of this situation and the fate of European welfare states, especially the self-awareness of European nations in politics. Klaus believes: To save European society, a cultural revolution must be carried out, primarily to prevent the blind tendency of social welfare decoupling from economic efficiency and to prevent the coordination between the state and society from being disrupted.