The confrontation of social models in the wake of the new century

Abstract

Difficulties of the so called European social model have started much before of the present financial crisis of 2008, and has to do with its hard economic competition with the American multinationals and the ones of Asiatic countries. In this study such social models are analyzed following the track of their different work ethic, which discover us the roots of the strong productivity of European, American and Asiatic undertakings, and at the same time became introduced a reference about a fourth model with a very distinctive work ethic, that of survival, as strong as the others but very much dispersed. The paper finishes with a reflection around the present conflict among those prevalent models, and launches a prognose about the future evolution.