The End of Diversity? Contributor(s): Yamamura, Kozo (Editor), Streeck, Wolfgang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801488206 ISBN-13: 9780801488207 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
Dewey: 330.943 |
LCCN: 2002151026 |
Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.36" W x 9.02" (1.33 lbs) 424 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Japanese |
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Publisher Description: After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both miracles have since faltered, allowing U.S. capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties of capitalism are now under intense pressure to converge to the U.S. model. Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck have gathered an international group of authors to examine the likelihood of convergence--to determine whether the global forces of Anglo-American capitalism will give rise to a single, homogeneous capitalist system. The chapters in this volume approach this question from five directions: international integration, technological innovation, labor relations and production systems, financial regimes and corporate governance, and domestic politics. In their introduction, Yamamura and Streeck summarize the crises of performance and confidence that have beset German and Japanese capitalism and revived the question of competitive convergence. The editors ask whether the two countries, confronted with the political and economic exigencies of technological revolution and economic internationalization, must abandon their distinctive institutions and the competitive advantages these have yielded in the past, or whether they can adapt and retain such institutions, thereby preserving the social cohesion and economic competitiveness of their societies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Streeck, Wolfgang: - Wolfgang Streeck is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.Yamamura, Kozo: - Kozo Yamamura is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Japanese Studies and Economics at the University of Washington. |