Overview

This book provides a definition of corporatism, an important task given the changes in definition since the nineteenth century and the current revival of intellectual interest in the subject as an economic system distinct from both capitalism and socialism. The definition permits the corporatist label to be extended to countries as diverse as Austria and Australia, and the extent to which these experiments have succeeded is also reviewed. The study suggests that developing countries and the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe could do well to emulate the example of the successful corporatist countries in building the necessary institutions at an early stage of their development.

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Author:   Jukka Pekkarinen ,  Matti Pohjola ,  Bob Rowthorn ,  Bob Rowthorn (Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.888kg
ISBN:  

9780198283805

ISBN 10:   0198283806
Pages:   444
Publication Date:   01 October 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Social corporatism and economic performance - introduction and conclusions, Jukka Pekkarinen et al; lessons from ""corporatist theorizations"", Goran Therborn; corporatism and wage bargaining, Matti Pohjola; corporatism and labour market performance, Bob Rowthorn; corporatism, patterns of employment and access to consumption, Andrew Glyn; saving and economic growth from a Nordic perspective, Katri Kosonen; social corporation and long-term economic performance, Michael Lanesmann and Juhana Vartiainen; industrial policies and social corporatism, Michael Landesmann; exchange rate policy and employment in small open economies, Sixten Korkman; corporatism and economic performance in Sweden, Norway and Finland, Jukka Pekkarinen; corporatism, success or failure? - Austrian experiences, Alois Guger; the Swiss model - corporatism or liberal capitalism?, Wolfgang Blaas; the unexpected emergence of Australian corporatism, Robin Archer."

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This is one of the most coherent edited volumes that I have ever read. It represents a major contribution to the literature on corporatism; in my view, the most important book on the subject since Peter Katzenstein's Small States in World Markets (1985). --American Political Science Review

This is one of the most coherent edited volumes that I have ever read. It represents a major contribution to the literature on corporatism; in my view, the most important book on the subject since Peter Katzenstein's Small States in World Markets (1985).--American Political Science Review

This is one of the most coherent edited volumes that I have ever read. It represents a major contribution to the literature on corporatism; in my view, the most important book on the subject since Peter Katzenstein's Small States in World Markets (1985). --American Political Science Review<br>

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