Publisher's Synopsis
How can we build a sustainable welfare state in an increasingly intertwined world? And how can social security contribute to a more peaceful world? International social security experts dealt with these issues after World War II and paved the way for our modern social security systems. This book not only analyses their function in international organisations and national offices but also the debates of the experts while developing the welfare state and during the emerging welfare state crises. Here, the book analyses how experts in supranational forums discussed solutions for problems such as financing pension schemes, the treatment of inflation, population ageing and how they tried to include their scientific findings into national legislation processes.
