The future of welfare in a global europe / Bernd Marin (ed.).

Introduction: The future of welfare in a global Europe / Bernd Marin -- Part I: From warfare to welfare and workfare. War and the welfare state / Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen -- Part II: Demographic metabolism, new measures of age and ageing, and the Active Ageing Index (AAI) 2012-2015. Demographic metabolism : enabling future generations / Wolfgang Lutz -- An easily understood and intergenerationally equitable normal pension age / Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov -- The Active Ageing Index (AAI) 2012-2015 / Asghar Zaidi -- Part III: Towards a human investment state : future-able education, skill formation, and economic-financial literacy as prerequisites of sustainable welfare society. Social investment, skills, and inequality : hard choices in education and welfare state policies / Marius R. Busemeyer -- Skills, stakes, and clout : early human capital foundations for European welfare futures / Pieter Vanhuysse -- 'Reform, inform, educate' : a new paradigm for pension systems' sustainability. Lessons from the 2011 'Rescue Italy' pension reform / Elsa Fornero -- Part IV: Class, generation, gender, and age cleavages in ageing societies. Cleavages in ageing societies : generation, age, or class? / Martin Kohli -- Women's work and pensions. Drawing lessons from Central and Eastern Europe / Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak -- Reallocation of resources across age in a comparative European setting. The National Transfer Accounts project / Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz -- Part V: Too sick to work? Disability, and happiness, in stressful and long-life societies. Too sick to work? The role of mental ill-health as a driver of inactivity and long-term unemployment / Christopher Prinz -- Happily ever after. The role of welfare policies / Orsolya Lelkes -- Part VI: Fragile welfare sustainability : two model cases in point. How sustainable is the Swedish model? / Joakim Palme -- Plea for an 'Agenda 2020' / Bert Rürup -- Part VII: No European social model in Europe, or towards a European social union? No 'European social model' in Europe? A polemic statement of disappointment by a critical proponent / Bernd Marin -- The case for a European social union. From muddling through to a sense of common purpose / Frank Vandenbroucke.