Varieties of Capitalism and New Institutional Deals

Edited by Wolfram Elsner, Professor of Economics, iino - Institute for Institutional and Innovation Economics, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, Germany and Hardy Hanappi, University of Technology, Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics, Vienna, Austria

'This collection of essays goes well beyond the technical exercises that have become standard in complexity modeling and brings to life in a very accessible and pragmatic way economists' growing concern with contingency, institutions, history, variety, information, power and policy. This is an important book for those interested in the likely future direction of economic methodology and policy modeling.'

• Contents:Introduction and OverviewWolfram Elsner and Hardy HanappiPART I: VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM, VARIETIES OF THE GLOBAL FIRM AND VARIETIES OF REGULATION1. Varieties of Capitalism: Theoretical Critique and EmpiricalObservationsStefan Kesting and Klaus Nielsen2. State Formation and the Construction and Maintenance of Institutionsfor Economic Growth in the West and the East, 1415–1846Patrick O’Brien3. Contemporary Capitalisms and Internationalisation: From OneDiversity to AnotherCharlie Dannreuther and Pascal Petit4. Towards an Historically Relevant Economics of the FirmMichael Dietrich and Jackie Krafft5. The Export of Varieties of Capitalism: The Cases of Wal-Mart andIKEASue Konzelmann, Frank Wilkinson, Charles Craypo and Rabih Aridi6. Modern Economic Predation: War, Corporate Fraud and the CruelChimera of Labour Market ReformJames K. Galbraith7. A New Global Military–Terrorism–Hegemony Social Structure ofAccumulation For Long–Wave Upswing?Phillip Anthony O’HaraPART II: THE (WELFARE) STATE, THE NEW ECONOMY AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL DEALS8. New Deals of New Social Entities. Evolution of Old Friends: Workers – Firms – Classes – StatesMichael Scheibenreif and Hardy Hanappi9. The Death of the Family? Evolution of a New Deal Between Biologicaland Social ReproductionHardy Hanappi and Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger10. Small Businesses – The Solution For What and For Whom? Elisabeth Sundin11. Building on the Micro–Meso–Macro Evolutionary Framework: TheStakes for the Analysis of Clusters of InnovationOlivier Brette and Caroline Mehier12. The New Economy, Innovation Policies, and the Role of OrganisedLabourFrank Gerlach13. Social Innovation Between Local and GlobalFrank Moulaert and Jacques NussbaumerPART III: AN ECONOMICS FOR A NEW ECONOMY?14. A New Economics of Complementarity, Increasing Returns andPlanning HorizonsFrederic B. Jennings15. Taking Economics to Bed: About the Pitfalls and Possibilities ofCultural EconomicsRobbert Maseland16. Almost Everything You Would Like to Know About Technology andGrowth and You Will Never Be Told By Neo-SchumpeteriansGeorge Liagouras17. Economics Remains the Same – Or Does It? Challenges of the NewEconomyJorma Sappinen and Kalevi KyläheikoIndex