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Governance of the American Economy (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

By John L. Campbell , J. Rogers Hollingsworth , Leon N. Lindberg

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
0521402573, 9780521402576
LCC
HC106.8 .G68 1991
Open Library ID
OL1863353M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13705510 bytes)
Pages
476\475
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this tightly edited volume, a single theoretical framework is developed to explain institutional transformation in the governance of the U.S. economy in the twentieth century, and this framework is applied to case studies of eight American industries in various sectors: telecommunications, nuclear energy, railroads, steel automobiles, dairies, meatpacking, and hospitals. By "governance" the contributors refer to the systems of rules, procedures and norms that define ownership and control the means of production, govern transactions and determine the efficiency with which resources and information are allocated. An important new evolutionary model of the governance transformation process emerges, and a new perspective on the role of the state is developed, which argues that the volume addresses questions about the governance of capitalist economies in general.

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