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Varieties of Capitalism
The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
Edited by Peter A. Hall and David Soskice
570 pages
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4 figures; tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924775-2
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Paperback
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30 August 2001
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- Elaborates a new framework for understanding differences among national economies
- Provides a new perspective on the problems of globalization
- Brings the business enterprise back into the centre of comparative political economy
- Sets new research agendas for the field of comparative politics in the coming decades
What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides a new and coherent set of answers to them.
Building on the new economics of organization, the authors develop an important new theory about which differences among national political economies are most significant
for economic policy and performance. Drawing on a distinction between 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies, they argue that there is more than one path to economic success. Nations need not converge to a single Anglo-American model. They develop a new theory of 'comparative institutional advantage' that transforms our understanding of international trade, offers new explanations for the response of firms and nations to the challenges of globalization, and provides a new theory of national interest to explain the conduct of nations in international relations.
The analysis brings the firm back into the centre of comparative political economy. It provides new perspectives on economic and social policy-making that illuminate the role of business in the
development of the welfare state and the dilemmas facing those who make economic policy in the contemporary world. Emphasizing the 'institutional complementarities' that link labour relations, corporate finance, and national legal systems, the authors bring interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on issues of strategic management, economic performance, and institutional change.
This pathbreaking work sets new agendas in the study of comparative political economy. As such, it will be of value to academics and graduate students in economics, business, and political science, as well as to many others with interests in international relations, social policy-making, and the law. Readership:
Scholars and graduate students in the fields of political science, strategic management, international business, political economy, European politics/EU, comparative law, and comparative sociology; MBA students
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Edited by Peter A. Hall, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and David Soskice, Director, Research Group on Employment and Economic Change, Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin Contributors:
Steven Casper, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge
Pepper Culpepper, Harvard University
Margarita Estevez, University of Minnesota
Orfeo Fioretos, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert J. Franzese, Jr., University of Michigan
Peter A. Hall, Harvard University
Bob Hancke, London School of Economics
Torben Iversen, Harvard University
Mark Lehrer, University of Rhode Island
Isabela Mares, Stanford University
David Soskice, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Jay Tate, University of California, Berkeley
Gunther Teubner, London School of Economics
Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University
Sigurt Vitols, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Stewart Wood, Magdalen College, Oxford
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"... this volume and its associated literature, will become the paradigm of explanation for the next decade." - West European Politics "Contains some first-rate analysis." - British Journal of International Relations. "This volume offers a new approach to understanding the institutional differences and similarities among the developed economies." - Progress in Human Geography "A milestone in the development of the subdiscipline of comparative political economy ... There is no doubt that Varieties of Capitalism will prove to be a landmark text. It is a very important collection, of value to all students in the field." - American Political Science
Review "In a collection of consistently high-quality pieces, there are particularly valuable comparative chapters on industrial relations, training systems, and corporate governance." - American Political Science Review "Written for the informed, non-specialist observer ... a useful and wide-ranging book." - Financial Adviser "This is an academic book in the sense that it draws on recent advances in economic and political theory - non-economists may find some chapters hard going - but it is also firmly based on an analysis of how companies really behave ... an important and carefully argued book." - Sir Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times "Quoted as one of the six books to change the world." -
New Statesman "It is a useful and wide-ranging book." - John Sloan, Financial Adviser Careers Extra "This book has been well worth waiting for. It demonstrates the wealth of insights that could be achieved through Soskice's innovative research program that began to change the agenda of Comparative POlitical Economy more than a decade ago. The volume combines a definitive restatement of the varieties of capitalism approach with illuminative applications to the range of research areas covered by it with some fascinating theoretical extensions. Excellent!" - Professor F.W. Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
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1.: Peter A. Hall and David Soskice: An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism
Part I: General Themes and Diverse Applications
2.: Kathleen Thelen: Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies
3.: Robert J. Franzese, Jr.: Institutional and Sectoral Interactions in Monetary Policy and Wage-Price Bargaining
4.: Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen, and David Soskice: Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State
5.: Isabela Mares: Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?
6.: Orfeo Fioretos: The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community
Part II: Case-Studies in Public Policy, Continuity, and Change
7.: Stewart Wood: Business, Government, and Labour Market Policy in Britain and Germany
8.: Pepper D. Culpepper: Employers, Public Policy, and the Politics of Decentralized Cooperation in Germany and France
9.: Bob Hancke: Revisiting the French Model: Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry
Part III: Corporate Governance, Firm Strategy, and the Law
10.: Sigurt Vitols: Varieties of Corporate Governance: Comparing Germany and the UK
11.: Mark Lehrer: Macro-Varieties of Capitalism and Micro-Varieties of Strategic Management in European Airlines
12.: Steven Casper: The Legal Framework for Corporate Governance: The Influence of Contract Law on Company Strategies in Germany and the United States
13.: Gunther Teubner: Legal Irritants: How Unifying Law Ends Up in New Divergences
14.: Jay Tate: National Varieties of Standardization
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