| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Institutional Diversity of Capitalism -- Institutional Complementarity -- Institutions and Politics -- Five Different Models of Capitalism -- An Empirical Investigation of the Diversity of Capitalism -- Institutional Change and Political Strategies in Europe -- Institutions, Complementarity, and Hierarchy -- Institutions and Economics -- Why Institutions Matter -- Elements of a Theory of Institutions -- Institutions and Conflict of Interest -- Institutions as a Political-Economy Equilibrium -- Institutional Complementarity -- Interaction -- Complementarity -- Institutional Hierarchy -- A Comparative Analysis of Capitalism -- Historical and International Differentiation of Capitalism -- Methodological Questions -- Social Systems of Innovation and Production -- Diversity of Capitalism -- Elements of Differentiation Among Models; Possible Institutional Complementaries -- Five Types of Capitalism -- Institutional Diversity: An Analysis of Five Domains -- Product Markets -- The Wage-Labour Nexus -- Employment Protection -- Industrial Relations -- Employment Policy -- Financial Systems -- Social Protection -- Education -- The Diversity of Economic Models -- The Five Models of Capitalism -- Diversity of Capitalism and Political Equilibria -- Partisan Politics -- Political Systems -- Comparative Institutional Advantage? -- An Analysis of Science/Technology/Industry Specialization -- The New Economy -- Economic Performance -- Whither Continental European Capitalism? -- The European Context |
| Summary |
Based on a theory of institutions and comparative capitalism, this text looks at the diversity of modern economies and identifies five different models: the Anglo-Saxon model; Asian capitalism; the Continental European model; the social democratic economies; and the Mediterranean model |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-302) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise.
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Capitalism
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Kapitalismus
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Institutionenökonomie
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Typologie
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Kapitalisme.
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Institutionalisme.
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Economische politiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
019926113X |
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0199261148 |
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9780199261130 |
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9780199261147 |
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9780191532054 |
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0191532053 |
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1281925268 |
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9781281925268 |
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9780191602474 |
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0191602477 |
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