Re-forming capitalism institutional change in the German political economy /

Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-

Re-forming capitalism institutional change in the German political economy / [electronic resource] : Wolfgang Streeck. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiii, 297 p. : ill.

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

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.


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Capitalism--Germany.


Germany--Economic policy--1990-
Germany--Economic conditions--1990-


Electronic books.

HC286.8 / .S767 2009

330.943