Contemporary Capitalism

This book argues there is no single best institutional arrangement for organizing modern societies.

Part I: 1. Coordination of economic actors and social systems of production Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer; Part II: Introduction: the variety of institutional arrangements and their complementarity in modern economics Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer; 2. The variety and unequal performance of markets Robert Boyer; 3. A typology of cooperative interorganizational relationships and networks Jerald Hage and Catherine Alter; 4. Weathering the storm: associational governance in a globalizing era William Coleman; 5. Constitutional orders: trust building and response to change Charles F. Sabel; Part III: Introduction: how and why do social systems of production change? Robert Boyer and Rogers Hollingsworth; 6. Beneficial constraints: on the economic limits of rational voluntarism Wolfgang Streeck; 7. Flexible specialization: theory and evidence in the analysis of industrial change; 8. Globalization, variety and mass production: the metamorphosis of mass production in the new competitive age Benjamin Coriat; 9. Continuities and changes in social systems of production: the cases of Japan, Germany, and the United States Rogers Hollingsworth; Part IV: Introduction: levels of spatial coordination and the embeddedness of institutions Philippe Schmitter; 10. Perspectives on globalization and economic coordination Wyn Grant; 11. Globalization in question: international economic relations and forms of public governance Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson; 12. The formation of international regimes in the absence of a Hegemon: clubs are trump Lorraine Eden and Fen Osler Hampson; 13. The emerging Euro-polity and its impact upon national systems of production Philippe Schmitter; Part V: Conclusion: from national embeddness to spatial and institutional nestedness Robert Boyer and Rogers Hollingsworth.