Statul modern ca stat-providenţă
Modern state as providence state

Summary/Abstract: The current financial and economic crisis prompted the reevaluation of capitalism and of its political-institutional framework. This article thus traces the intellectual origins of the modern state drawing on the theories of modern political thinkers, arguing that the contemporary welfare state was equally shaped by liberalism and socialism. This perspective aims at downplaying the socialists’ arguments according to which capitalism is no more a useful economic system and subsequently calls for a left-right political and ideological consensus as a way out of the financial and economic debacle that we know face. Since theoretically the modern state was primarily designed as a welfare state and since historically it became un Etat-providence, emulating both the liberal and the socialist perspectives, this consensus is most likely to be not only rational, but also successful.

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