This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition. It endorses the employment of multiple perspectives, including critical political economy, institutionalist systems of capitalism, structuralist-dependency scholarship and world-systems...

"The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled 'Creative Capitalism', five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new...

This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended...

The ends and means of public policy / Mark Fabian -- Behavioural theories and public policy / Uwe Dulleck -- Institutions matter : an introduction to the role of institutions in public policy / Julia Talbot-Jones -- Regulatory theories and frameworks / Elizabeth Bluff -- Why do we need...