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Re-forming capitalism : institutional change in the German political economy / Wolfgang Streeck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Germany.
- Capitalism.
- Germany--Economic policy--1990-.
- Germany.
- Germany--Economic conditions--1990-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key arguments in these fields: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. - ;Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the
- Contents:
- Five sectors
- Industry-wide collective bargaining : shrinking core, expanding fringes
- Intermediary organization : declining membership, rising tensions
- Social policy : the rise and fall of welfare corporatism
- Public finance : the fiscal crisis of the postwar state
- Corporate governance : the decline of Germany Inc.
- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories
- From system to process
- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions
- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative
- Disorganization as liberalization
- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence
- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions
- Internationalization
- German unification
- History
- Bringing capitalism back in.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-05342-6
- 9786612053429
- 0-19-156522-9
- OCLC:
- 319940590
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