European pensions & global finance
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European pensions & global finance
Oxford University Press, 2003
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European pensions and global finance
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-240) and index
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Description
This text is about the demographic and funding crises that threaten continental European systems of pension and retirement income. The author argues that state-sponsored social security will not deliver promised retirement incomes for the baby-boom generation; European monetary union and the imperatives of global finance has made such promises untenable thereby undercutting nation-state social solidarity. Globalization has set many challenges for European countries, not least of which is providing pension security for their citizens. At the same time, global finance has opened-up options for corporations and individuals seeking alternatives to the past; but exercising those opportunities will come at a high cost for European notions of social justice.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Nation-State in the Twenty-First Century
- 2. Overview: Demography and Pensions Funding
- 3. Requiem for a French Ideal
- 4. Global Finance and German Accounting Rules
- 5. Stakeholders, Shareholders, and German Co-determination
- 6. Dutch Fund Governance and Financial Services
- 7. London's Place in the World of Finance
- 8. Epilogue: Pension Futures
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