Contributor
Berger, Suzanne.
Imprint:Ithaca, [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Descriptionviii, 387 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:The Convergence Hypothesis Revisited: Globalization but Still the Century of Nations? / Robert Boyer -- Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy Are Greatly Exaggerated / Robert Wade -- Has France Converged on Germany? Policies and Institutions since 1958 / Andrea Boltho -- American and Japanese Corporate Governance: Convergence to Best Practice? / W. Carl Kester -- Lean Production in the German Automobile Industry: A Test Case for Convergence Theory / Wolfgang Streeck -- Financial Markets in Japan / Shijuro Ogata -- Competition among Forms of Corporate Governance in the European Community: The Case of Britain / Stephen Woolcock -- Competition and Competition Policy in Japan: Foreign Pressures and Domestic Institutions / Yutaka Kosai -- The Convergence of Competition Policies in Europe: Internal Dynamics and External Imposition / Herve Dumez, Alain Jeunemaitre -- The Macropolitics of Microinstitutional Differences in the Analysis of Comparative Capitalism / Peter A. Gourevitch. - Retail Convergence: The Structural Impediments Initiative and the Regulation of the Japanese Retail Industry / Frank K. Upham -- Trade and Domestic Differences / Miles Kahler -- Policy Approaches to System Friction: Convergence Plus / Sylvia Ostry -- Free and Managed Trade / Paul Streeten -- Convergence in Whose Interest? / Ronald Dore.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"The evolution of the socialist economies of Eastern and Central Europe into capitalistic, market economies provides scholars with the opportunity and justification to consider capitalism itself. Throughout the Soviet experiment, a choice was seen to exist between capitalism on the one side and some form of socialism on the other, whether it was a centrally directed Soviet or a decentralized worker-managed system. Hybrids were possible, of course, as was a confluence of market and directive. Fundamentally, though, the choice was between capitalism and socialism. Without the differences in varied socialisms overwhelming them, the contrasts in capitalism have become more pronounced. The authors have produced an intriguing study of the nature of capitalism: Is there one capitalism or many? Are the different approaches simply variations or fundamentally separate approaches to economic problems? Can one approach be grafted successfully onto a different historical, political, and developmental situation? If there are different capitalisms, are they converging (if so, to what?) or diverging? The authors are from a variety of academic backgrounds, and they have done an admirable job examining these questions." -- Choice review
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