The social, political and economic future of the European welfare states / by Bent Greve -- A tale of two pensions reforms : a Sraffian view / by Sergio Cesaratto -- Is there a demographic time-bomb? / by Bent Greve -- A market imitating employment subsidy / by Ralph S. Musgrave -- Pauperising cities? : towards a regional framework for EU poverty statistics / by Matthias Till -- Welfare state and uncertainty : two different views / by Jesper Jespersen -- Inequality and unemployment : reflections on theory and on Europe / by James K. Galbraith -- International finance for development and the new transnational dimension of welfare in poor countries / by Marco Zupi -- From globalization to world welfare : established and emerging global actors / by Andrea Gallina