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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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Putting the Political Back into Political Economy by Bringing the State Back in yet Again

Vivien A. Schmidt
- 01 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational choice and historical institutionalism tend to reinforce their substantive theories either by disaggregating the state into its historical institutional components or by focusing on the strategic actions of its rational actors.
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OECD demand regimes (1960-2000)

C.W.M. Naastepad, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
TL;DR: This article used a general Keynesian growth model, allowing demand growth to be wage led or profit led, to argue that the case for real wage restraint is based on weak foundations, and found that demand is wage led in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and that the decline in world trade growth is the dominant cause of sluggish growth in all economies.
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Whither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future

Martin Hess, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2006 - 
TL;DR: A special issue of the Association of American Geographers' "Global Production Networks" special issue on economic geography as mentioned in this paper was published in 2004, with a focus on the development of global production networks as a research paradigm.
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Institutions and growth in East Asia

Stephan Haggard
- 01 Dec 2004 - 
TL;DR: A review of these institutional explanations finds that few if any of the postulated institutional explanations involve either necessary or sufficient conditions for rapid growth as mentioned in this paper, suggesting that institutions are themselves endogenous to other political factors that appear more consequential for growth, including particularly the nature of the relationship between the state and the private sector.
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An overview of Hofstede-inspired country-level culture research in international business since 2006

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: Kirkman, Lowe, & Gibson as discussed by the authors reviewed and critiqued international business research inspired by the most cited book in the field Hofstede's 1980 Culture's Consequences: International differences in work-related values (Hofstede [1980] 2001).