The Futures Of European Capitalism

Author : Vivien A. Schmidt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191039393

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The Futures of European Capitalism by Vivien A. Schmidt Pdf

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization and Europeanization, but they have not converged. Although national policies may now be more similar, especially where they follow from common European policies, they are not the same. National practices, although moving in the same general direction toward greater market orientation, continue to be differentiable into not just one or even two but three varieties of capitalism. And national discourses that generate and legitimate changes in policies and practices not only remain distinct, they matter. The book is a tour de force which combines sophisticated theoretical insights and innovative methods to show that European countries generally, but in particular Britain, France, and Germany (for which the book provides lengthy case studies), have had very different experiences of economic adjustment, and will continue to do so into the future.

Author : Vivien Ann Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : OCLC:1131994842

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The Futures of European Capitalism by Vivien Ann Schmidt Pdf

This work details the changes related to globalization and Europeanization that have led to major shifts in European countries' political-economic policies, practices and discourse, but not to convergence. It illustrates European countries' very different experiences of economic adjustment.

Author : Vivien Ann Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199253676

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The Futures of European Capitalism by Vivien Ann Schmidt Pdf

This work details the changes related to globalization and Europeanization that have led to major shifts in European countries' political-economic policies, practices and discourse but not to convergence. It illustrates European countries' very different experiences of economic adjustment.

Author : Viven A. Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475411911

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The Futures of European Capitalism by Viven A. Schmidt Pdf

Author : Vivien Ann Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199253685

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The Futures of European Capitalism by Vivien Ann Schmidt Pdf

Although national policies may now be more similar, especially where they follow from common European policies, they are not the same.

Author : RAFIG Y. ALIYEV
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466992788

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EUROPE WITHOUT CAPITALISM by RAFIG Y. ALIYEV Pdf

The book brings forward the author’s personal attitudes to the analysis of the present difficult political, economic, and financial situation in the EU member states. It reveals the author’s prognoses of the necessity of system reforms, avoiding useless attempts to reanimate the obsolete political and financial structure of capitalism. In the author’s opinion, for objective reasons, modern capitalism is not able to solve problems of preservation of life-supporting financial institutions the European states and the West are facing today. The author thinks that Europe has to go over to a postcapitalistic way of development. This is the call of the times, the demand of the historical moment. Capitalism as a system of political and economic development has completed its historical mission, having brought Western countries to the highest level of economic and technical development, creation of the best welfare for the countries of Europe and the West (i.e., it has exhausted resources for progress). Principally, new empires should have been built ten years ago (i.e., it was time for imperialism). However, today it is impossible for objective reasons. Countries like China, Russia, former USSR republics, and part of the third world will develop according to the capitalistic way of development, taking into consideration a mass of mistake the West has made. They have a huge amount of resources for a capitalistic way of development. What will happen to Europe in the future? Prof. Rafig Y. Aliyev has specific proposals about that worthy of attention and discussion. However, the delay of important decisions on the very political and financial system may turn into a tragedy for many nations, including the EU member states. The book is meant for a wide circle of readers.

Author : Peter A. Hall,David W. Soskice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199247745

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Varieties of Capitalism by Peter A. Hall,David W. Soskice Pdf

Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.

Author : Carles Boix
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691216898

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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads by Carles Boix Pdf

An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalism The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism over the past two centuries, Carles Boix explains how we got here—and where we could be headed. Boix looks at three defining stages of capitalism, each originating in a distinct time and place with its unique political challenges, structure of production and employment, and relationship with democracy. He begins in nineteenth-century Manchester, where factory owners employed unskilled laborers at low wages, generating rampant inequality and a restrictive electoral franchise. He then moves to Detroit in the early 1900s, where the invention of the modern assembly line shifted labor demand to skilled blue-collar workers. Boix shows how growing wages, declining inequality, and an expanding middle class enabled democratic capitalism to flourish. Today, however, the information revolution that began in Silicon Valley in the 1970s is benefitting the highly educated at the expense of the traditional working class, jobs are going offshore, and inequality has risen sharply, making many wonder whether democracy and capitalism are still compatible. Essential reading for these uncertain times, Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads proposes sensible policy solutions that can help harness the unruly forces of capitalism to preserve democracy and meet the challenges that lie ahead.

Author : Dorothee Bohle,Bela Greskovits
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465222

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Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery by Dorothee Bohle,Bela Greskovits Pdf

With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took in each country, the assets and liabilities left behind by socialism, the transformational strategies embraced by political and technocratic elites, and the influence of transnational actors and institutions. They also evaluate the impact of three regional shocks: the recession of the early 1990s, the rolling global financial crisis that started in July 1997, and the political shocks that attended EU enlargement in 2004.Bohle and Greskovits show that the postsocialist states have established three basic variants of capitalist political economy: neoliberal, embedded neoliberal, and neocorporatist. The Baltic states followed a neoliberal prescription: low controls on capital, open markets, reduced provisions for social welfare. The larger states of central and eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak republics) have used foreign investment to stimulate export industries but retained social welfare regimes and substantial government power to enforce industrial policy. Slovenia has proved to be an outlier, successfully mixing competitive industries and neocorporatist social inclusion. Bohle and Greskovits also describe the political contention over such arrangements in Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia. A highly original and theoretically sophisticated typology of capitalism in postsocialist Europe, this book is unique in the breadth and depth of its conceptually coherent and empirically rich comparative analysis.

Author : Paul Collier
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062748669

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The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier Pdf

Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.

Author : Lester C. Thurow
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0140263284

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The Future of Capitalism by Lester C. Thurow Pdf

Cites America's economic trouble spots while charting a course for surviving and maintaining global leadership in the years to come.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783714603

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The Birth of Capitalism by Henry Heller Pdf

Author : Barry Eichengreen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400829545

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The European Economy since 1945 by Barry Eichengreen Pdf

In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while working hours fell by a third. The European Economy since 1945 is a broad, accessible, forthright account of the extraordinary development of Europe's economy since the end of World War II. Barry Eichengreen argues that the continent's history has been critical to its economic performance, and that it will continue to be so going forward. Challenging standard views that basic economic forces were behind postwar Europe's success, Eichengreen shows how Western Europe in particular inherited a set of institutions singularly well suited to the economic circumstances that reigned for almost three decades. Economic growth was facilitated by solidarity-centered trade unions, cohesive employers' associations, and growth-minded governments--all legacies of Europe's earlier history. For example, these institutions worked together to mobilize savings, finance investment, and stabilize wages. However, this inheritance of economic and social institutions that was the solution until around 1973--when Europe had to switch from growth based on brute-force investment and the acquisition of known technologies to growth based on increased efficiency and innovation--then became the problem. Thus, the key questions for the future are whether Europe and its constituent nations can now adapt their institutions to the needs of a globalized knowledge economy, and whether in doing so, the continent's distinctive history will be an obstacle or an asset.

Author : Kristin Plys,Charles Lemert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000429572

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Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future by Kristin Plys,Charles Lemert Pdf

For decades, Charles Lemert has been the leading voice in social theory. In Capitalism and its Uncertain Future he teams up with one of the most creative emerging social theorists, Kristin Plys, to examine how social theory imagines capitalism. This engaging and innovative book provides new perspectives on well known theorists from Adam Smith, and Frantz Fanon, to Gilles Deleuze, while also introducing readers to lesser known theorists such as Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Mohammad Ali El Hammi, and many more. The book examines theories of capitalism from four perspectives: macro-historical theories of the origins of capitalism; postcolonial theories of capitalism that situate capitalism as seen from the Global South; theories of capitalism from the perspective of labor; and prospective theories of capitalism’s uncertain future. This provocative and ambitious, yet accessible, perspective on theories of capitalism will be of interest to anyone who wants to explore where we’ve been and where we’re headed.

Author : Beáta Farkas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137600578

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Models of Capitalism in the European Union by Beáta Farkas Pdf

This book uses comparative economic analysis to provide a common conceptual framework for all current European Union member states. Based on empirical investigation, the author identifies the Nordic, North-western, Mediterranean, and Central and Eastern models of capitalism on the threshold of the 2008 global financial and economic crisis. The chapters also examine the resulting institutional responses to the crisis and the methods of crisis management adopted by each member state. The analysis reveals that the crisis has not triggered radical institutional change but, instead, highlighted deep institutional differences not between the old and new member states, but between the Nordic, North-western, Mediterranean, and Central and Eastern European countries. These institutional differences are so significant that they require the rethinking of European integration theory. Models of Capitalism in the European Union serves as a useful handbook for academics, advanced students, policy-makers and advisors who are interested in European economic issues.