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Contemporary Capitalism The Embeddedness of Institutions

Hardcover • 1997 • English

Contemporary Capitalism The Embeddedness of Institutions

By J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Robert Boyer

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This book argues that there is no single best institutional arrangement for organizing modern societies. Therefore, the market should not be considered the ideal and universal arrangement for coordinating economic activity. Instead, the editors argue, the economic institutions of capitalism exhibit a large variety of objectives and tools that complement each other and can not work in isolation. The various chapters of the book ask what logics and functions institutions follow and why they emerge...Show more

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9780521561655

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Contemporary Capitalism The Embeddedness of Institutions

Format

Hardcover

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