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Review Essay: Recent Trends in Comparative Political Economy and their Implications for Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2003

GREGORY W. NOBLE
Affiliation:
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Abstract

Books reviewed

Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (eds.), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer (eds.), Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Torben Iversen, Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice (eds.), Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Type
Review Essay
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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