National Diversity and Global Capitalism / / ed. by Suzanne Berger, Ronald Dore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Suzanne,; Boltho, Andrea,; Boyer, Robert,; Dore, Ronald,; Dumez, Hervé,; Gourevitch, Peter A.,; Jeunemaitre, Alain,; Kahler, Miles,; Kester, W. Carl,; Kosai, Yutaka,; Ogata, Shijuro,; Ostry, Sylvia,; Streeck, Wolfgang,; Streeten, Paul,; Upham, Frank K.,; Wade, Robert,; Woolcock, Stephen,
• HerausgeberIn: Berger, Suzanne,; Dore, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 17 tables

How does globalization change national economies and politics? Are rising levels of trade, capital flows, new communication technologies, and deregulation forcing all societies to converge toward the same structures of production and distribution? Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore have brought together a distinguished group of experts to consider how the international economy shapes and transforms domestic structures.Drawing from experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia, the contributors ask whether competition, imitation, diffusion of best practice, trade, and financial flows are reducing national diversities. The authors seek to understand whether the sources of national political autonomy are undermined by changes in the international system. Can distinctive varieties of capitalism that incorporate unique and valued institutions for achieving social welfare survive in a global economy?The contributions to the volume present a challenge to conventional views on the extent and scope of globalization as well as to predictions of the imminent disappearance of the nation-state's leverage over the economy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. CONVERGENCE?: MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- CHAPTER ONE. The Convergence Hypothesis Revisited: Globalization but Still the Century of Nations? -- CHAPTER TWO. Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy are Greatly Exaggerated -- CHAPTER THREE. Has France Converged on Germany? Policies and Institutions since 1958 -- PART II. CONVERGING OR NATIONAL AND AUTONOMOUS?: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES -- CHAPTER FOUR. American and Japanese Corporate Governance: Convergence to Best Practice? -- CHAPTER FIVE. Lean Production in the German Automobile Industry: A Test Case for Convergence Theory -- CHAPTER SIX. Financial Markets in Japan -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Competition among Forms of Corporate Governance in the European Community: The Case of Britain -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Competition and Competition Policy in Japan: Foreign Pressures and Domestic Institutions -- CHAPTER NINE. The Convergence of Competition Policies in Europe: Internal Dynamics and External Imposition -- CHAPTER TEN. The Macropolitics of Microinstitutional Differences in the Analysis of Comparative Capitalism -- PART III. NEGOTIATED CONVERGENCE -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Retail Convergence: The Structural Impediments Initiative and the Regulation of the Japanese Retail Industry -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Trade and Domestic Differences -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Policy Approaches to System Friction: Convergence Plus -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Free and Managed Trade -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Convergence in Whose Interest? -- Contributors -- Index