Contested Economic Institutions - The Politics of Macroeconomics Wage Bargaining in Advanced

Klappentext This book helps explain one of the most politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Zusammenfassung This book helps explain one of the most politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. The Real Effects of Monetary Policies: 2. An institutional model of economic performance; 3. Economic institutions and performance: quantitative evidence; Part II. The Politics of Institutional Design: 4. A theory of contested institutions; 5. From Keynesian centralization to Monetarist decentralization: five Northern European experiences; 6. Conclusion: the fork in the road for social democracy.

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• Authors: Torben Iversen, Torben (Harvard University Iversen
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.1999
• EAN: 9780521642262
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64226-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous