The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?

by Dan Breznitz (Editor), John Zysman (Editor)

Overview

Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations-the US, Western European countries, Japan-can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer. Can their middle classes remain comfortable as more and more good and technically jobs disappear to other parts of the world? Can they support themselves as they devote more and more economic resources to an aging population base? In The Third Globalization, eminent political economists Dan Breznitz and John Zysman gather some of the discipline's leading scholars to assess the prospects for growth and prosperity among advanced industrial nations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199339815
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Dan Breznitz is Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of Run of the Red Queen (Yale UP) and Innovation and the State (Yale UP). John Zysman is Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley, and co-author of Manufacturing Matters (Basic Books)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

About the Contributors

Introduction: Facing the Double Bind: Maintaining a Healthy and Wealthy Economy in the 21st Century
John Zysman and Dan Breznitz

Section I: The New Terms of Competition: Challenges and Challenger
Dan Breznitz and John Zysman

1. China's Run - Economic Growth, Policy, Interdependences, and Implications for Diverse Innovation Policies in a World of Fragmented Production
Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree

2. The Chinese Auto Industry as Challenge, Opportunity and Partner
Gregory W. Noble

3. Center-Local Politics and the Limits of Interdependence: Why China's Innovation Challenge May be Overstated
Crystal Chang

4. Services with Everything: The ICT-Enabled Digital Transformation of Services
John Zysman, Stuart Feldman, Kenji E. Kushida, Jonathan Murray, Niels Christian Nielsen

5. Platforms, Productivity, and Politics: Comparative Retail Services in a Digital Age
Bartholomew C. Watson

6. A Decade after the Y2K Problem: Has Indian IT Emerged?
Rafiq Dossani

7. The Dissolution of Sectors: Do Politics and Sectors Still Go Together?
Mark Huberty


Section II: A (re)New(ed) Need for the State - The Already Wealthy Response? (Or just Crisis and Response)
John Zysman and Dan Breznitz

8. This Time It Really Is Different: Europe, the Financial Crisis, and 'Staying on Top' in the 21st Century
Mark Blyth

9. The Fragility of the US Economy: The Financialized Corporation and the Disappearing Middle Class
William Lazonick

10. Energy systems transformation: State choices at the intersection of sustainability and growth
Mark Huberty

11. How the Nordic Nations Stay Rich: Governing Sectoral Shifts in Denmark, Finland and Sweden
Darius Ornston

12. Directionless: French Economic Policy in The 21st Century
Jonah D. Levy

13. Japan's Information Technology Challenge
Steven K. Vogel

Conclusion: A Third Globalization, Lessons for Sustained Growth?
Dan Breznitz and John Zysman