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How National are Business Systems? The Role of Different State Types and Complementary Institutions in Constructing Homogenous Systems of Economic Coordination and Control
Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2003
A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
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Japanese growth and stagnation: A Keynesian perspective
Nakatani, Takeshi; Skott, Peter - 2006
This paper uses a modi.ed Harrodian model to understand both the long period of rapid Japanese growth and the recent period of stagnation. The model has multiple steady-growth solutions when the labour supply is highly elastic, and government intervention, we argue, took the Japanese economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287845
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Bilder der Wirtschaft: Metaphern, Diskurse und Hajeks neoliberales Hegemonialprojekt
Ötsch, Walter - 2007
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Free to Trust? Economic Freedom and Social Capital
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005
We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, we use newer data, we incorporate more countries, and we use instrumental variables to handle the causality problem. A central result is that legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321621
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Everything must change, so that the world can remain the same: In memory of the life and work of Elmar Altvater
Mahnkopf, Birgit - 2019
crisis in modern capitalism. The following text attempts to sketch some elements of a remarkable leftist intellectual history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061720
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Long waves of capitalist development: An empirical investigation
Basu, Deepankar - 2016
In this paper, I investigate the phenomenon of long waves of capitalist development from two perspectives. First, I look for evidence of long waves of economic growth taking the dates for turning points of long waves from the historical literature (Mandel, 1995). Using historical data for 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788901
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A unified Marxist approach to accumulation and crisis in capitalist economies
Basu, Deepankar - 2017
An economic crisis in capitalism is a deep and prolonged interruption of the economy-wide circuit of capital. Crises … emerge from within the logic of capitalism's operation, and are manifestations of the inherently contradictory process of … capital accumulation. The Marxist tradition conceptualizes two types of crisis tendencies in capitalism: a crisis of deficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788924
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The Communist Manifesto: What can we learn today for a country like Vietnam?
Herr, Hansjörg - 2018
functioning of capitalism. They underestimated the possibilities to regulate the capitalist system and also allowed the working … regulation with the features of capitalism analysed in the Manifesto. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797484
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The (im-)possibility of rational socialism: Mises in China's market reform debate
Weber, Isabella - 2021
This paper investigates the long first decade of reform in China (1978-1992) to show that Mises, in particular his initiating contribution to the Socialist Calculation Debate, became relevant to the reconfiguration of China's political economy when the reformers gave up on the late Maoist...
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Capitalism in Brazil and COVID-19: crisis, repercussions and responses to the pandemic
De Conti, Bruno; Breda, Diógenes; Welle, Arthur - 2023
responses from local governments. This article aims to characterize the main traits of capitalism in Brazil, with a focus on its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309929