Interview on Postindustrialism and the Future of the Welfare State

In The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (Oxford University Press, 1999) Gosta Esping-Andersen presents a classic example of an empirically grounded historically materialist analysis of welfare capitalism, in the tradition of Polanyi, Marshall and others. He argues that its architecture needs to be re-thought because of the changing nature of postindustrial economies and that this requires us to think in terms of ‘welfare regimes’...