Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic
challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the …

The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in
particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The …

Lucio Baccaro and Jonas Pontusson make a significant contribution to comparative political
economy with their approach to analyzing growth in advanced economies, which focuses on …

Whereas the American case may hint that product and labour market deregulation, venture
capital and NASDAQ are necessary for the success of technologically led growth …

In recent decades, resource-poor countries have out-performed resource-abundant ones. A
stylised facts model of competitive industrialisation describes the long-run development of a …

The paper provides an overview of the concept of wage-led growth, both as an analytical
concept and as an economic policy strategy. At the core of our analysis is the distinction …

This book gives a twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization
on the welfare state. It focuses on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to …

The twentieth century may be called the century of the welfare state. It saw the emergence,
expansion and maturation of the welfare state as we know it. Some have claimed that these …

This accessible work provides a 'political sociology'of welfare states in industrial societies,
with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and …

William Baumol (1986) examines the growth performance of some 60 capitalist economies
for the period 1950-80 and concludes that there were three'clubs' at different stages of …