Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems

by J. Marangos

Overview

Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give rise to certain economic systems by establishing consistency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230110601
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/08/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Marangos is Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

Preface xiii

Abbreviations xv

1 Introduction 1

2 Consistency and Viability of Economic Systems 9

3 Consistency and Viability of Market Capitalism 49

4 Great Britain: From Atlee's Postwar Consensus and Welfare State to Thatcher's Free Market Economy 77

5 Postwar Japan: From the Economic Miracle to the Bubble Economy 119

6 The European Union as an Economic System: From the European Coal and Steel Community to the Euro 171

7 Sweden: From "Third Way" to Joining the European Union 223

Index 271

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