Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy

Edited by Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher

in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press

Abstract: Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, first elaboarted in detail in the book Varieties of Capitalism (OUP, 2001), this book critically analyzes these developments in the European political economy and their effects on the continental European economies. Leading political economists from Europe and the US debate how VoC can help understand the political-economic challenges that Europe is facing today and how understanding these new challenges can in turn enrich and enhance the VoC perspective. Thematically, the contributions to this volume are organised in four sections: * how the macro-economics of EMU have influenced different European models of capitalism, * how the Single Market programme was received in the different institutional regimes in European capitalism, * how welfare and labour market reforms are debated and implemented, * how European capitalism travelled east after 1989. Preceding this is a spirited defence of the VoC approach by Peter Hall, and an introduction from the volume editors, considering the approach, and proposing extensions and amendments. This book demonstrates that the VoC approach remains, as the editors put it in their introduction, a rich seam to mine, capable of accommodating new developments, and theoretically flexible enough to produce new and innovative hypotheses and arguments. Contributors to this volume - Alexander Borsch, Boston Consulting, Magnus Feldmann, Harvard University, Michel Goyer, Warwick University, Peter Hall, Harvard University, Bob Hancke, London School of Economics and Political Science, Anke Hassel, International University Bremen, Andrea Herrmann, European University Institute, Torben Iversen, Harvard University, Lawrence King,Yale University, Oscar Molina, European University Institute, Vlad Mykhnenko, University of Glasgow, Martin Rhodes, European University Institute, Florence, David Soskice, WZB, Duke University, and London School of Economics and Political Science, Mark Thatcher London School of Economics and Political Science.

Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780199547012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199547012

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://ukcatalogue.o ... uct/9780199547012.do

Access Statistics for this book

More books in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Economics Book Marketing ().