Governance of the American Economy

Herausgeber: Campbell, John L.; Lindberg, Leon N.; Hollingsworth, J. Rogers

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780521408271
• ISBN-10: 052140827X
• Artikelnr.: 21907941

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Part I.
Conceptual and Historical Foundations: 1. Economic governance and the
analysis of structural change in the American economy Leon N. Lindberg,
John L. Campbell and J. Rogers Hollingsworth; 2. The logic of coordinating
American manufacturing sectors J. Rogers Hollingsworth; Part II. Empirical
Studies of Governance of the American Transformations in the United States:
3. Transformations in the governance of the American telecommunications
industry Kenneth N. Bickers; 4. Contradictions of governance in the nuclear
energy sector John L. Campbell; 5. The statist evolution of rail governance
in the United States, 1830-1986 Robert Dawson Kennedy Jr; 6. Governance of
the steel industry: what caused the disintegration of the oligopoly?
Christoph Scherrer; 7. Governance of the automobile industry: the
transformation of labour and and supplier relations Christoph Scherrer; 8.
The dairy industry: form yeomanry to the institutionalization of
multilateral governance Brigitte Young; 9. Economic governance and the
American meatpacking industry John Portz; 10. The invisible hand in
healthcare: the rise of financial markets in the US hospital industry
Patricia J. Arnold; Part III. Theoretical Evaluation of the Empirical
Cases: 11. The evolution of governance regimes John L. Campbell and Leon N.
Lindberg; 12. The state and the organization of economic activity Leon N.
Lindberg and John L. Campbell; References; Index.