This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and the political dynamics of adjustment within national models of capitalism through an analysis of recent labor-market reform in France and Germany. It argues that a climate of economic austerity since the...

Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1. Introduction and motivation / Eelke de Jong -- Chapter 2. National culture in the three types of market economies / Eelke de Jong and Annemiek Schilpzand -- Part II. Economic ideas -- Chapter 3. The morality of the market process and the normative...

"All human beings develop a certain view on the world, and individuals belonging to the same national cultures are likely to develop very similar views with one another. In this same manner, academic economists and policymakers are consistently exposed to the same view on the preferred way of...