Beyond varieties of capitalism : conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy / edited by Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes, and Mark Thatcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hancké, Bob.

Rhodes, Martin, 1956 February 23-

Thatcher, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Europe.

Capitalism.

Europe--Economic policy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, first elaborated in detail in the book Varieties of Capitalism (OUP, 2001), this book critically analyzes these developments in the European political economy and their effects on the continental Europeaneconomies. Leading political economists from Europe and the US debate how VoC can help understand the political-economic cha

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; PART I. VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM: TAKING STOCK; 1. Introduction: Beyond Varieties of Capitalism; 2. The Evolution of Varieties of Capitalism in Europe; PART II. MACRO-ADJUSTMENT AND VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM; 3. Macroeconomics and Varieties of Capitalism; 4. Wage Bargaining and Comparative Advantage in EMU; PART III. THE SINGLE MARKET, REGULATION, AND FIRMS; 5. Reforming National Regulatory Institutions: the EU and Cross-National Variety in European Network Industries

6. Institutional Variation and Coordination Patterns in CMEs: Swiss and German Corporate Governance in Comparison7. Capital Mobility, Varieties of Institutional Investors, and the Transforming Stability of Corporate Governance in France and Germany; PART IV. LABOUR MARKET AND WELFARE STATE ADJUSTMENT; 8. The Political Economy of Adjustment in Mixed Market Economies: A Study of Spain and Italy; 9. What Does Business Want? Labour Market Reforms in CMEs and Its Problems; 10. Economic Shocks and Varieties of Government Responses; PART V. CAPITALISM GOES EAST

11. Central European Capitalism in Comparative Perspective12. The Origins of Varieties of Capitalism: Lessons from Post-Socialist Transition in Estonia and Slovenia; 13. Strengths and Weaknesses of 'Weak' Coordination: Economic Institutions, Revealed Comparative Advantages, and Socio-Economic Performance of Mixed Market Economies in Poland and Ukraine; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-425) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-954701-7

9786611148928

1-4356-2124-7

0-19-152568-5

1-281-14892-X

OCLC:

191075796