In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...

Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat sich die Welt der Automobilindustrie wieder einmal stark verändert. Zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre schienen amerikanische und europäische Automobilproduzenten keine Wahl zu haben, das japanische System der schlanken Produktion zu übernehmen, in dem auch die Arbeitnehmer...

Introduction -- Part One: The Basics -- Chapter 2: The institutional forms on which a capitalist economy is based -- Chapter 3: From the iron laws of capitalism to the successive regulation modes -- Chapter 4: Accumulation regimes and their historical evolution -- Chapter 5: A theory of the...

pt. 1. Japanese capitalism : the companyism eroded by firms' heterogeneity and the lack of new coordinating mechanisms -- part 2. Chinese and Korean capitalisms : two contrasted trajectories -- part 3. Diversity of Asian capitalisms : from globalization to Asian integration?

This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia,...