1st Edition

Varieties of Capitalism Over Time

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This book looks at how varieties of capitalism emerge over time and across different geographies, and is comprised of submissions from scholars around the globe. Covering a wide range of territories including Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia across both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this edited volume considers the roles that the state and business working together play in... Read more

Introduction

Varieties of Capitalism Over Time

Niall G. MacKenzie, Andrew Perchard, Christopher Miller and Neil Forbes

1. Shifts in government business relations: Assessing change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995

Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman

2. Shaping the rules of the game: Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship (1939–1975)

Maria Fernandez-Moya and Nuria Puig

3. ‘No mutiny will be allowed’: business, the tax system and the Greek version of Mediterranean capitalism during dictatorship, 1967-1974

Zoi Pittaki

4. State intervention in East Asia’s varieties of capitalism: A case study of the electric power industry in China and Japan, 1882–1951

Chenxiao Xia

5. From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010

Pasi Nevalainen and Ville Yliaska

6. National institutions, regional outcomes. The political economy of post-war Swedish regional policy

Martin Eriksson, Lena Andersson-Skog and Josefin Sabo

7. Only one way to raise capital? Colombian business groups and the dawn of internal markets

Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal

8. Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry

Julie Bower

9. ‘Settlers and comrades’. The variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910–2016

Grietjie Verhoef

Biography

Niall G. MacKenzie is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business History at Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Andrew Perchard is Professor of Industry & Society at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, England, UK, and Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Christopher Miller is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Neil Forbes is Professor of International History at Coventry University, England, UK.