Franco Archibugi 
Associative Economy [PDF ebook] 
Insights beyond the Welfare State and into Post-Capitalism

Are Welfare States in crisis? Forty years after Gunnar Myrdal’s seminal Beyond the Welfare State it is still little grasped in the ‘reform’ debate that the whole structure and economies of our societies are being transformed. This book reasserts the importance of a new employment and productive model — that of the ‘associative economy’ — which integrates social solidarity with economic planning.