Economics was often unable so far to grasp the deep meaning of these events and update
or rethink appropriately its mainstream. Comparative economic systems produced fine and …

The paper reviews and criticizes the past and current state of comparative studies of
economic systems (CSES) for the lack of an analytical framework to back them. An analytical …

As we enter the twenty-first century, one of the dramatic shifts in the world system is the
increasing openness and interpenetration of national economies and sovereign states. This …

An approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a
wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, with updated country case studies …

This article argues that the coordination of economic institutions is occurring simultaneously
at various spatial levels (eg subnational region, nation-state, transnational region, global) …

Understanding the conditions for successful economic growth and development is becoming
an increasingly central question in economics. It is the same question that Adam Smith was …

This chapter, being halfway between abstract economic theory and policy analysis,
addresses one of the most contested issues in comparative economic studies, namely the …

The article provides a theoretical overview and empirical summary of the contributions to this
collection. The collection makes four contributions to the literature on comparative …

Abstract The discussion on 'New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)'gives us a state-of-
the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of …

This study is an attempt to close a gap in the comparative capitalism literature. Studies in
that field focus mostly on industrialized countries, discuss economic systems in developing …