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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage
Peter A. Hall,David Soskice +1 more
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Transformative Capacity, Adaptability, Patterns of Change: An Analytical Framework
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change based on two interrelated pertinent factors: sectoral-specific transformative capacity of new technologies themselves and sectoral adaptability of socio-economic structures, institutions and actors confronted with the opportunities presented by new technologies.
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Rebalancing the Spatial Economy: The Challenge for Regional Theory
TL;DR: The authors argue that the UK's problem of spatial economic imbalance is in fact a long-standing one, the very persistence of which raises key issues for our theories of regional development and policy, arguing that neither the new spatial economics, with its obsession with agglomeration, nor regional studies, with a plethora of concepts and paradigms but lack of integration and synthesis, offers a particularly convincing basis for devising policies capable of redressing the spatial imbalance in the UK economic landscape.
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Drivers of national climate policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined patterns of national climate policy performance and their implications for the geopolitics of climate change, and provided an overview of levels of emissions performance across countries.
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Institutional fragility and outward foreign direct investment from China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed the concept of institutional fragility to investigate the outward foreign direct investment behavior of firms from emerging economies and found that institutional fragilities at the provincial level is associated with increased OFDI decision, and this relationship is weaker when firms have high productivity or have been controlled by state with high ownership.
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Dependence and precarity in the platform economy.
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