Varieties of Capitalism - Peter A. Hall, David Soskice

The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

KORTE INHOUD

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides a new and coherent set of answers to them.

Building on the new economics of organization, the authors develop an important new theory about which differences among national political economies are most significant for economic policy and performance. Drawing on a distinction between 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies, they argue that there is more than one path to economic success. Nations need not converge to a single Anglo-American model. They develop a new theory of 'comparative institutional advantage' that transforms our understanding of international trade, offers new explanations for the response of...
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2001Uitgever: Oxford University Press540 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199247757ISBN-13: 9780199247752

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