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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783101403321

Autore

Streeck Wolfgang <1946->

Titolo

Re-forming capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : institutional change in the German political economy / / Wolfgang Streeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-05342-6

9786612053429

0-19-156522-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

330.943

Soggetti

Capitalism - Germany

Germany Economic policy 1990-

Germany Economic conditions 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Five sectors -- Industry-wide collective bargaining : shrinking core, expanding fringes -- Intermediary organization : declining membership, rising tensions  -- Social policy : the rise and fall of welfare corporatism -- Public finance : the fiscal crisis of the postwar state -- Corporate governance : the decline of Germany Inc. -- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories -- From system to process -- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions -- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative -- Disorganization as liberalization -- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence -- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions -- Internationalization -- German unification -- History -- Bringing capitalism back in.

Sommario/riassunto

Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key arguments in these fields: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. - ;Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in



this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the