This book presents the first comprehensive history of the
interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss
''three-pillar'' pension system into a model for the World Bank and
other pension reformers during the last two decades of the
twentieth century. Through a study of business federations'',
private pension lobbyists'' and insurance companies'' archives,
Matthieu Leimgruber charts the century-long battle waged over the
boundaries of state and private pensions. He shows how a
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目錄:
List of figures page vi
List of tables vii
Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: The emergence of a pension fund champion: Switzerland
in the worlds of welfare
1 The dress rehearsal for pension politics 1890–1914
2 Laying the foundations of a divided pension system
1914–1938
3 No monster like the Beveridge Plan. The wartime breakthrough of
social insurance 1938–1948
4 The three-pillar doctrine and the containment of social insurance
1948–1972
Epilogue. Aging in the shadow of the three pillars
1972–2006
Conclusion
d Appendix. A statistical overview of the second pillar
Sources and references
Index