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Streeck, Wolfgang 1946-

Re-forming capitalism institutional change in the German political economy - New York Oxford University Press 2009 - xiii,297p. ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780199556779

LCCN: 2008035858

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Capitalism--Germany.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany--Economic policy--1990-
Germany--Economic conditions--1990-

LC Class. No.: HC286.8 / .S767 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 330.943 / ST-R