What Future For Social Security?

It is widely assumed today that the welfare state is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benef... » 

It is widely assumed today that the welfare state is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subject in most developed countries. This text investigates to what extent this assumption is warranted. «