Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Gøsta Esping-Andersen (born 1947) is a Danish sociologist whose primary focus is on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies. Esping-Andersen is a professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain), and member of the Scientific Committee of the Juan March Institute and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences Institute, both in Madrid (Spain). His major and most influential book was titled The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Published in 1990, the book laid out three main types of welfare states, in which modern developed capitalist nations cluster: Later, he proposed another type: It is important to note that these categories have little to do with the contemporary...