Varieties of Capitalism in History, Transition and Emergence: New Perspectives on Institutional Development

ISBN-13: 9780367869106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Martha Prevezer

Opis

Building on the Varieties of Capitalism framework, this book brings together the tools and perspectives of institutional and agency economics. This has been achieved with historical and contemporary analyses of how institutions such as legal status, ownership transitions from public or collective ownership to private ownership, representational

Spis treści

1. Introduction

PART I

2. Primary institutions: Property rights, legal systems and the state - theories and concepts

3. Meso-institutions

PART II

4. How did Britain’s ‘good institutions' evolve, and how good were they?

5. Continental variety of capitalism: France and Germany compared with Britain

6. The United States compared with Britain

PART III

7. Institutions debate for development: Theories, concepts and institutional development in Tanzania

8. China in its institutional transition to capitalism

9. Conclusions

O autorze

Martha Prevezer is Senior Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK. She has worked in various policy arenas, at the Bank of England, the National Economic Development Office (NEDO) and London Business School.