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Exit Polder Model? Socioeconomic Changes in the Netherlands
Lei Delsen
ISBN: 0-275-97700-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97700-9
240 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: To what does the Netherlands owe their recent economic success? Will the polder model become the victim of its own success or will the threat come mainly from outside? In the Netherlands, polder are small communities hemmed in by dykes built to resist quickly rising tides, and hence imply communal effort to mediate harmful outside forces. Translated into economic terms, the polder model entailed tripartite cooperation between business, government, and labor to protect the nation's economic and social well being. Delsen evaluates recent changes in the Dutch economy brought on by globalization and American dominance and concludes that the polder model is reaching its end.

Delsen argues that the market forces introduced by the purple governments imply a far-reaching adaptation of the unique Dutch economic order. The primacy of the market has resulted in a more flexible labor market, decentralization of the wage formation, modernization of the social security system, more competition on the goods markets, and liberalization and competition in the financial markets. More market forces within Dutch socioeconomic relations imply also that the aims of trade and industry have changed, and have become oriented toward short-term results and away from actions aimed at long-term continuity and consensus.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Successes of the Polder Economy
    Shadow Sides of the Polder Model
    Flexibility in Dutch Labor Organizations
    Cost and Benefit of the Consultation Economy
    The Dutch Welfare State
    The Dutch Pension Scheme
    Does the Polder Model Have a Future?
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: LEI DELSEN is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics of the Nijmegen School of Management, University of Nijmagen, the Netherlands.
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