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The End of Diversity?: Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

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Description for The End of Diversity?: Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) Paperback. Editor(s): Yamamura, Kozo; Streek, Wolfgang. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 1KBB; JPA; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing U.S. capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties of capitalism are now under intense pressure to converge to the U.S. model. Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck have gathered an international group of authors to examine the likelihood of convergence—to determine whether the global forces of Anglo-American capitalism will give rise to a single, homogeneous capitalist system.

The chapters in this volume approach this ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488207
SKU
V9780801488207
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About Unknown
Kozo Yamamura is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Washington. Among his many books is Asia in Japan's Embrace. Wolfgang Streeck is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Together, they edited The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison, also from Cornell.

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Following the Second World War, Germany and Japan embarked on creating unique forms of capitalism, distinct from the Anglo-American model yet fully integrated with the U.S. side in the new bi-polar world.... This series of insightful studies of the two models—edited by noted Japanese and German academics—offers ten chapters explaining and contrasting the two paths to economic development taken by ... Read more

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