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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage

Peter A. Hall, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
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In this paper, the authors highlight the role of business in national economies and show that there is more than one path to economic success, and explain national differences in social and economic policy.
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What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success.

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Capital United? Business Unity in Regulatory Politics and the Special Place of Finance

Kevin Young, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically assess patterns of business unity within regulatory policymaking across different regulated sectors and find considerable empirical support for the finance capital unity hypothesis, the notion that the financial sector enjoys more business unity than do other regulated sectors of the economy.
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Neo-liberalism, varieties of capitalism, and the shifting contours of South Africa's financial system

Sam Ashman, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the role played by both national and global finance in comparative economic performance is examined, arguing that both the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and the New Financial Economics, with its emphasis on market imperfections, information asymmetries and financial systems, fail fully to explain theoretically the specific role of finance in the economy.
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Financialization as a strategy of workplace control in professional service firms

Johan Alvehus, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: The authors explored financialization as an employee control strategy in a Big Four accountancy firm, and found that financialization involved attempts to transform employees working lives into an investment activity where work was experienced as "billable hours" that are "invested" in the hope of a high future pay-off.
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Self‐Regulatory Trajectories in the Shadow of Public Power: Resolving Digital Dilemmas in Europe and the United States

Abraham L. Newman, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the public sector tools employed to induce industry collective action set the two countries on distinct self-regulatory trajectories, and that the logic and character of self-regulation in Europe is very different from that in the U.S.
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State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America

Aaron Schneider
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the five countries of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica) and provide historical, quantitative and qualitative detail on these countries.