Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field
Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107066
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发表时间：
2021-08
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7
通讯作者：
C. Walker;A. Druckman;Tim Jackson
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作者：
C. Walker;A. Druckman;Tim Jackson
整个经合组织的福利体系面临着许多综合挑战，不平等加剧、人口结构变化和环境危机可能会在未来几十年推高福利需求。经济增长不再是这些问题的可持续解决方案。因此，我们必须考虑在没有经济增长的情况下，福利制度将如何应对这些挑战。我们回顾了解决这个复杂问题的文献。我们为后增长的福利体系确定了五个相互关联的两难困境：1)如何在一个非增长的经济体中维持福利体系的资金来源；2)如何管理不断上升的福利相对成本；3)如何克服福利体系内的结构和行为增长依赖；4)如何管理有限星球上日益增长的需求；以及5)如何克服福利国家转型的政治障碍。现在需要进一步研究后增长福利制度的宏观经济动态；试验预防性、关联性、低资源的福利提供模式；并寻求更好地理解后增长福利转型的政治障碍。我们还提出了将增长后福利研究本身视为一个领域的理由，目的是提高学科之间的连贯性和交叉肥力。
Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality, demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the coming decades. Economic growth is no longer a sustainable solution to these problems. It is therefore imperative that we consider how welfare systems will cope with these challenges in the absence of economic growth. We review the literature tackling this complex problem. We identify five interconnected dilemmas for a post-growth welfare system: 1) how to maintain funding for the welfare system in a non-growing economy; 2) how to manage the increasing relative costs of welfare; 3) how to overcome structural and behavioural growth dependencies within the welfare system; 4) how to manage increasing need on a finite planet; and 5) how to overcome political barriers to the transformation of the welfare state. There is now need for further research investigating the macro-economic dynamics of post-growth welfare systems; trialling preventative, relational, low-resource models of welfare provision; and seeking to better understand political barriers to a post-growth welfare transition. We also make the case for considering post-growth welfare studies as a field in its own right, with the aim of improving coherence and cross-fertilisation between disciplines.