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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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“Families” in International Context: Comparing Institutional Effects Across Western Societies

Lynn Prince Cooke, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2010 - 
TL;DR: This article reviewed comparative evidence of institutional effects on families in Western societies, focusing on two key aspects of family life: gendered divisions of labor and people's transitions into, within, and out of relationships.
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Some notes on institutions in evolutionary economic geography

Ron Boschma, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role of institutions is orthogonal to organizational routines since each territory is characterized by a variety of routines and a single firm can apply its routines in different territorial contexts.
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Immigration and Conflict in Europe

Rafaela M. Dancygier
TL;DR: A theory of immigrant conflict is proposed in this paper, with a focus on patterns of immigrant-native conflict in Great Britain and the UK's racist violence in two London boroughs.
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Institutional quality dataset

Aljaž Kunčič
- 01 Mar 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of institutions as the underlying basis for economic and social activity is emphasized, and the Latent Institutional Quality Dataset (LIQD) is used to measure the quality of legal, political and economic institutions for every country in the world.
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Economic patriotism : reinventing control over open markets

Ben Clift, +1 more
- 08 Feb 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how tensions between international market integration and spatially limited political mandates have led to the phenomenon of economic patriotism, which can include territorial allegiances at the supranational or the local level.