Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Capitalist Diversity in Open Economies -- 2. Governments, Business, and the Design Problem -- 3. Three Models of Open Governance -- 4. Britain: From Replacing to Reinforcing a Liberal Market Economy -- 5. France: The Centralized Market Economy and Its...

"For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects...