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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 17 tables
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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