Contested Economic Institutions

Author : Torben Iversen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645324
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Economic Institutions written by Torben Iversen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Explores wage bargaining institutions, macro-economic policy regimes, and the welfare state. Argues that unemployment is the outcome of interaction between the centralization of the wage bargaining system and the character of the monetary policy regime.

Author : Torben Iversen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monetary Regimes and Wage Bargaining Systems written by Torben Iversen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Torben Iversen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Economic Institutions written by Torben Iversen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Romain Huret
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297628
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism Contested written by Romain Huret and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, Social Darwinism at the end of the nineteenth century and neoliberalism today. In stark contrast, the era of the New Deal was first and foremost an attempt to put an end to inequality in American society. In the historical longue durée, it appears today as a kind of golden age when policymakers and citizens sought to devise solutions to the two major "questions"—labor on one side, social on the other—that were at the heart of the American political economy during the twentieth century. Capitalism Contested argues that the New Deal order remains an effective framework to make sense of the transformation of American political economy over the last hundred years. Contributors offer an historicized analysis of the degree to which that political, economic, and ideological order persists and the ways in which it has been transcended or even overthrown. The essays pay attention not only to those ideas and social forces hostile to the New Deal, but to the contradictions and debilities that were present at the inauguration or became inherent within this liberal impulse during the last half of the twentieth century. The unifying thematic among the essays consists not in their subject matter—politics, political economy, social thought, and legal scholarship are represented—but in a historical quest to assess the transformation and fate of an economic and policy order nearly a century after its creation. Contributors: Kate Andrias, Romain Huret, William P. Jones, Nelson Lichtenstein, Nancy MacLean, Isaac William Martin, Margaret O'Mara, K. Sabeel Rahman, Timothy Shenk, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Jason Scott Smith, Samir Sonti, Karen M. Tani, Jean-Christian Vinel.

Author : Robert O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521774406
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Global Governance written by Robert O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich analysis of the increasingly important engagement between international institutions and global social movements.

Author : Torben Iversen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848619
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare written by Torben Iversen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, Torben Iversen offers a systematic explanation of popular preferences for redistributive spending, the economic role of political parties and electoral systems, and labor market stratification (including gender inequality). Contrary to the popular idea that competition in the global economy undermines international differences in the level of social protection, Iversen argues that these differences are actually made possible by a high international division of labor.

Author : Gerald Epstein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781800887572
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Central Banking written by Gerald Epstein and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central banks are among the most powerful government economic institutions in the world. This volume explores the economic and political contours of the struggle for influence over the policies of central banks such as the Federal Reserve, and the implications of this struggle for economic performance and the distribution of wealth and power in society. Written over several decades by Gerald Epstein and co-authors, these works explore why central banks do what they do, and how they could better operate. Epstein shows that central banks are a contested terrain over which major economic and political groups fight for control; and demonstrates that though in the US and most other countries, private bankers have the upper-hand in this political struggle, they don't always win. Graduate students, faculty and advanced undergraduates in economics, political science and sociology who are interested in central banking and finance as well as specialists who focus on central banking will find greater understanding of central banks through The Political Economy of Central Banking.

Author : Arturo Minet
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638816796
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization: A contested concept, both analytically and normatively written by Arturo Minet and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,8, University of Warwick (University of Warwick, UK, Dep. of Economics), course: Making of Economic Policy, language: English, abstract: “We don’t know what globalization is, but we have to act.” This sentence, from a peasant activist in North East Thailand interviewed in Bangkok on 10 June 2002, makes clear why ‘globalization’ is still one of the most contested concepts in recent international political economy. Global media has raised people’s awareness of the fact that ‘the world is moving faster than ever’. Reduced formal barriers to commerce (e.g. import tariffs) have helped world trade to grow faster than output and foreign direct investments faster than trade . Multi-national corporations with a global target market have entailed the threat of off-shoring and outsourcing, which exerts a constant downward pressure on wages in developed countries. The information and communication technology revolution as well as the decreased transportation costs due to the airplane and containerization have accelerated a new division of labour. Moreover non-economic issues as the change of the nation-state role and the growing importance of transnational institutions are feeding the talks about globalization. Yet, just as the interviewed peasant above, nobody really knows what the exact topic is.

Author : Richard W. Carney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415503518
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Capitalism written by Richard W. Carney and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany. The institutional arrangements of financial systems are widely seen as a central distinguishing feature of 'varieties of capitalism'. Through a wide-range of case studies, this book contends that political battles between landed interests, labor, and owners of capital have fundamentally shaped modern financial arrangements. Demonstrating how these conflicts have shaped contemporary financial architecture in a number of different contexts, author Richard W. Carney offers an innovative approach to explaining the distinctive capitalist arrangements of nation-states. By demonstrating the importance of landed interests to nations' institutional configurations, the book has clear implications for developing countries such as India and China. Providing a detailed account of the development of financial institutions, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, business, finance, and law. It will also offer insights valuable to government policymakers, analysts at international organizations, and the business community.

Author : Avner Greif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521480444
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy written by Avner Greif and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description