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.

Cornell studies in political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Europe.

Capitalism.

International trade agencies--Europe.

International trade agencies.

European cooperation.

Europe--Economic policy.

Europe.

Europe--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe's governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and international commerce. Bridging comparative and international political economy, Creative Reconstructions compellingly expands our understanding of the historic relationship between varieties of capitalism and international cooperation.Orfeo Fioretos' pathbreaking analysis places multilateral institutions at the center of the study of capitalism. He highlights the role played by governments' multilateral strategies in shaping the national trajectories of capitalism in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Fioretos shows that membership in international organizations such as the European Union and its precursors was an integral innovation in the domestic management of capitalism that came to play a central, if varied, role in shaping the evolution of modern market economies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Capitalist Diversity in Open Economies

Chapter 2. Governments, Business, and the Design Problem

Chapter 3. Three Models of Open Governance

Chapter 4. Britain: From Replacing to Reinforcing a Liberal Market Economy

Chapter 5: France: The Centralized Market Economy and Its Alternatives

Chapter 6. Germany: Stability and Redesign in a Coordinated Market Economy

Chapter 7. Lessons from Capitalist Diversity and Open Governance

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801461194

0801461197

9780801460715

0801460719

OCLC:

747412419