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Solidarity without the State?Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare State, 18902000\nAuthor(s): Matthieu Leimgruber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521875400, 978-0521875400\nSynopsis\nThis 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 distinctive path towards social provision has laid the foundation for a pension fund industryrivalling that of the United States and the United Kingdom. Through this comparative approach Matthieu Leimgruber is also able to .