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This book looks at how varieties of capitalism emerge over time and across different geographies comprising submissions from scholars around the globe. It covers a range of territories including Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
List of contents
Introduction Varieties of Capitalism Over Time 1. Shifts in government business relations: Assessing change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995 2. Shaping the rules of the game: Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship (1939-1975) 3. 'No mutiny will be allowed': business, the tax system and the Greek version of Mediterranean capitalism during dictatorship, 1967-1974 4. State intervention in East Asia's varieties of capitalism: A case study of the electric power industry in China and Japan, 1882-1951 5. From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970-2010 6. National institutions, regional outcomes. The political economy of post-war Swedish regional policy 7. Only one way to raise capital? Colombian business groups and the dawn of internal markets 8. Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry 9. 'Settlers and comrades'. The variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910-2016
About the author
Niall G. MacKenzie is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business History at Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Andrew Perchard is Professor of Industry & Society at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, England, UK, and Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Christopher Miller is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Neil Forbes is Professor of International History at Coventry University, England, UK.
Summary
This book looks at how varieties of capitalism emerge over time and across different geographies comprising submissions from scholars around the globe. It covers a range of territories including Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
