Recent work in comparative political economy has stressed that coordination of firm-specific investments is a necessary condition for the development of solidaristic policies promoting social welfare (Martin & Thelen 2007). In the absence of ‘macrocorporatism' firms will be unable to maintain...

‘Global financial crisis' is an inaccurate description of the current upheaval in the world's financial markets. The initial banking crisis did not affect all countries to the same degree. Notably, while the US and UK banking systems were badly hit, those of the other two major Anglo-Saxon...

Since the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2008, the term “ordoliberalism” has experienced a marked revival. Academics and politicians of all couleurs have recently referred to ordoliberalism as a possible way forward. Others have held ordoliberalism responsible for Germany's...

This study investigates global economies whose regulatory regimes are leading in area-specific outcome measures. The research focussed on 3 themes in its comparison of the UK with these other world-leading regimes: the effects of rules-based versus principles-based approaches to regulating, the...