Varieties of Capitalism (the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage)

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What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success. The book sets a new intellectual agenda for everyone interested in relations between politics, economics, and business.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199247745
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 11/8/2001
  • Pages: 556
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.30 (d)

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Harvard University

Duke University and

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1 An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism 1
2 Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies 71
3 Institutional and Sectoral Interactions in Monetary Policy and Wage/Price-Bargaining 104
4 Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State 145
5 Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers? 184
6 The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community 213
7 Business, Government, and Patterns of Labor Market Policy in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany 247
8 Employers, Public Policy, and the Politics of Decentralized Cooperation in Germany and France 275
9 Revisiting the French Model: Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry 307
10 Varieties of Corporate Governance: Comparing Germany and the UK 337
11 Macro-varieties of Capitalism and Micro-varieties of Strategic Management in European Airlines 361
12 The Legal Framework for Corporate Governance: The Influence of Contract Law on Company Strategies in Germany and the United States 387
13 Legal Irritants: How Unifying Law Ends up in New Divergences 417
14 National Varieties of Standardization 442
Bibliography 474
Index 521
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