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A set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country,
regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical
framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As
highlighted by the recent debate on 'secular stagnation,' economic
growth has slowed down considerably, and this has given rise to a
host of new problems, from financial instability to the collapse of
mainstream parties. What happens when growth-the main mechanism of
capitalist legitimation-is harder to come by and less broadly
shared? And how should we think about capitalist diversity in the
context of global stagnation? In Diminishing Returns, Lucio
Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson address these questions by
bringing together a number of comparative and international
political economists with expertise across many different countries
and regions. Going beyond the methodological nationalism common in
most comparative research, each author departs from a common
theoretical framework, the Growth Model Perspective, and
contributes to develop it further. The outcome is a new theoretical
framework to help social scientists, policymakers, and opinion
makers, understand the politics of growth and stagnation, which
offers state of the art empirical analyses at the country,
regional, and global level.
This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary
empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations
in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its
purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken
hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five
detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different
country and including quantitative analysis. The book offers a
comprehensive description and analysis of what has happened to the
institutions that regulate the labor market, as well as the
relations between employers, unions, and states in Western Europe
since the collapse of the long postwar boom. The primary
theoretical goal of this book is to provide a critical examination
of some of the central claims of comparative political economy,
particularly those involving the role and resilience of national
institutions in regulating and managing capitalist political
economies.
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