Re-forming capitalism : institutional change in the German political economy / Wolfgang Streeck.

Author/creator Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Five sectors -- Industry-wide collective bargaining : shrinking core, expanding fringes -- Intermediary organization : declining membership, rising tensions -- Social policy : the rise and fall of welfare corporatism -- Public finance : the fiscal crisis of the postwar state -- Corporate governance : the decline of Germany Inc. -- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories -- From system to process -- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions -- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative -- Disorganization as liberalization -- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence -- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions -- Internationalization -- German unification -- History -- Bringing capitalism back in.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.
LCCN 2008035858
ISBN9780199556779
ISBN0199556776