Managing Modern Capitalism

?Managing Modern Capitalism is an important volume that creatively interconnects the changing face of capitalism on national and international levels with a sophisticated description and assessment of monetary, fiscal, and industrial policy responses to the challenges the global economy faces. . . . The essays provide a wealth of case-study and comparative materials grounded in rich theoretical discussions that would lend themselves to extensive use in advanced undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on comparative political economics, economic development, and the state and public policy.?-Perspectives on Political Science "Managing Modern Capitalism is an important volume that creatively interconnects the changing face of capitalism on national and international levels with a sophisticated description and assessment of monetary, fiscal, and industrial policy responses to the challenges the global economy faces. . . . The essays provide a wealth of case-study and comparative materials grounded in rich theoretical discussions that would lend themselves to extensive use in advanced undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on comparative political economics, economic development, and the state and public policy."-Perspectives on Political Science

M. DONALD HANCOCK is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies at Vanderbilt University. He authored Sweden: The Politics of Post-Industrial Change (1972), and co-edited Politics in the Post-Welfare State (1972) and West Germany: The Politics of Democratic Corporatism (1989). He has contributed articles to The Wilson Quarterly, Comparative Politics, and Polity. JOHN LOGUE is Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. BERNT SCHILLER is Professor at Roskilde University Center and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He has authored several books on Swedish trade unions, employees, and industrial democracy, and articles for the Scandanavian Journal of History.

Preface Introduction: The Transformation of Modern Capitalism by M. Donald Hancock, John Logue, and Bernt Schiller Strategies for Industrial Renewal Contrasting Approaches to Economic Management and Industrial Policy by M. Donald Hancock The United Kingdom, Sweden, and Germany: A Study in Contrasts and Convergence by M. Donald Hancock Industrial Policies in France by Sabine Erbs-Seguin Industrial Policy in a Federalist Polity: Microcorporatism in the United States by Seth Borgos Economic Management and Performance: A Comparative Assessment by M. Donald Hancock Workplace Democracy in Practice and Theory Workplace Democracy: The Dual Roots of Worker Participation by Bernt Schiller The Challenge to Industrial Democracy in Britain by John Hillard and David Coates The Swedish Model Reconstituted by Bernt Schiller Workplace Democracy in Germany by Jutta Helm The Rise and Fall of Autogestion in France by Bernard E. Brown Democratizing the American Corporation: Illusions and Realities of Employee Participation and Ownership by Catherine Ivancic and John Logue Workplace Democracy: A Comparative Assessment by Bernt Schiller Future Perspectives Prospective Policies in a Turbulent Age by John Logue Industrial Policy and Competitiveness in the United States by Ray Marshall The Transformation of Industrial Society: An Ecological and Economic Democratic Perspective by Franz Steinkhler Beyond Wage-Earner Funds by Rudolf Meidner Democratic Theory and Atheoretical Democracy: Reflections on Building Democratic Enterprises in the American Economy by John Logue Conclusion: Managing Modern Capitalism: Unanticipated Consequences and Prospects by M. Donald Hancock, John Logue, and Bernt Schiller Bibliography Index