ABSTRACT

During the fall of 2003, the Danish government established a welfare commission whose task was to analyse future challenges to the welfare state in light of demographic projections, increased internationalisation and rising individualism, among other factors. The selection of commission members was criticised for being very one-sided in regards to the scope and diversity of the committee members’ backgrounds. Not only was the panel solely composed of professional economists, although one person with a legal background, but it was furthermore economists who consider the economy to be adequately described by a neoclassical general equilibrium system.