Synopses & Reviews
This book argues that European economies were not deregulated in the 1980s. While old, politically-centralized institutions have lost importance, institutional arrangements continue to shape economic behavior of peripheral actors. The book's importance lies not just in showing that the prevailing deregulation view is wrong as far as continental European countries are concerned, but especially in outlining an alternative pattern of micro-social regulation of their economies.
Table of Contents
'Introduction; Part I. The Rise and Decline of the Political Regulation of the Economy: 1. The Keynesian welfare state and its crisis; 2. Unstable concertation; 3. Organised interests and public policies; 4. An anomalous case? state, economy and organised interests in Italy; 5. The crisis of political exchange and the growth of micro-concertation; 6. The search for flexibility; 7. The problem of consensus in production; 8. An emblematic case: industrial adjustment and micro-concertation in Italy; Conclusions.\n
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