Research from a workshop, "Persistent Inequality in a Competitive World," and from other projects funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to the Santa Fe Institute.

Globalization and the limits to poverty alleviation / Pranab Bardhan -- Social protection in a supranational context: European integration and the fates of the "European social model" / Claus Offe -- Threat effects of capital mobility on wage bargaining / Minsik Choi -- Constraints, opportunities, and information: financial market-government relations around the world / Layna Mosley -- Egalitarian redistribution in globally integrated economies / Samuel Bowles -- Social democracy as a development strategy / Karl Ove Moene & Michael Wallerstein -- Globalization and democracy / Adam Przeworski & Covadonga Meseguer Yebra -- Between redistribution and trade: the political economy of protectionism and domestic compensation / Carles Boix -- Public opinion, international economic integration, and the welfare state / Kenneth Scheve & Matthew J. Slaughter -- Immigration and redistribution in a global era / Stuart Soroka, Keith Banting & Richard Johnston -- Economic integration, cultural standardization, and the politics of social insurance / Samuel Bowles & Ugo Pagano -- Conclusion / Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles & Michael Wallerstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.