Creative reconstructions : multilateralism and European varieties of capitalism after 1950 / Orfeo Fioretos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fioretos, Karl Orfeo, 1966-

Series:

Cornell studies in political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International trade agencies.

Capitalism.

Europe--Economic policy.

Europe.

Economic policy.

Europe--Foreign economic relations.

International economic relations.

Capitalism--Europe.

International trade agencies--Europe.

European cooperation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Fioretos (political science, Temple U.) explores the creative way in which governments and corporations destroyed and preserved integral features of national economic systems through periods of radical change in Europe's advanced market economies. Economic reforms tend to destroy some aspects and preserve others, he says, but after World War II the politics of institutional destruction and preservation went beyond national borders and entailed a significant and evolving commitment to international cooperation and the institution of multilateralism. He argues that how the governments reconciled national and multilateral commitments profoundly shaped Europe's largest market economies. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Capitalist diversity in open economies

Governments, business, and the design problem

Three models of open governance

Britain : from replacing to reinforcing a liberal market economy

France : the centralized market economy and its alternatives

Germany : stability and redesign in a coordinated market economy

Lessons from capitalist diversity and open governance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801449697

0801449693

OCLC:

687614843