Varieties of Capitalism and New Institutional Deals

by Elsner, Wolfram; Hanappi, Hardy

• ISBN13: 9781847204738
• ISBN10: 1847204732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

In response to global and technological challenges, this important book highlights the continuing diversity of national institutional reconfigurations and policy reforms from an institutional economics perspective. The distinguished contributors offer a fresh and critical appraisal of three interconnected fields of research; varieties of capitalism, the new economy and new institutional deals. They discuss comparative institutional systems, institutional state and policy reform strategies, and the further development of evolutionary-institutional economic theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview
Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of the Global Firm and Varieties of Regulation
Varieties of Capitalism: Theoretical Critique and Empirical Observations	p. 23
State Formation and the Construction and Maintenance of Institutions for Economic Growth in the West and the East, 1415-1846	p. 53
Contemporary Capitalisms and Internationalisation: From One Diversity to Another	p. 77
Towards an Historically Relevant Economics of the Firm	p. 103
The Export of Varieties of Capitalism: The Cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA	p. 123
Modern Economic Predation: War, Corporate Fraud and the Cruel Chimera of Labour Market Reform	p. 151
A New Global Military-Terrorism-Hegemony Social Structure of Accumulation for Long-Wave Upswing?	p. 159
The (Welfare) State, the New Economy and New Institutional Deals
New Deals of New Social Entities. Evolution of Old Friends: Workers - Firms - Classes - States	p. 183
The Death of the Family? Evolution of a New Deal Between Biological and Social Reproduction	p. 195
Small Businesses - The Solution For What and For Whom?	p. 209
Building on the Micro-Meso-Macro Evolutionary Framework: The Stakes for the Analysis of Clusters of Innovation	p. 227
The New Economy, Innovation Policies, and the Role of Organised Labour	p. 251
Social Innovation Between Local and Global	p. 259
An Economics for a New Economy?
A New Economics of Complementarity, Increasing Returns and Planning Horizons	p. 281
Taking Economics to Bed: About the Pitfalls and Possibilities of Cultural Economics	p. 299
Almost Everything You Would Like to Know About Technology and Growth and You Will Never Be Told By Neo-Schumpeterians	p. 323
Economics Remains the Same - Or Does It? Challenges of the New Economy	p. 345
Index	p. 363
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