Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social
sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic …

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis
has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period …

Now that the'Varieties of Capitalism'hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are
searching for new directions. This book presents the first sustained dialogue between …

The Japanese model of capitalism has tended to be conceptualized within the extant
literature in terms of a transition from a model characterized by coordination towards one in …

Abstract As David Coates notes in the previous chapter, we are currently in a paradoxical
period. Peter Hall and David Soskice's (2001) Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach …

This article shows how International Political Economy of Labour (IPEL) approaches can be
fruitful in the study of working class and institutional transformation in contemporary …

Gramscian International Political Economy scholarship has predominantly focused on
studying capital's power to subsume labour under different hegemonic projects. Various …

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that
have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and …

Every modern era is punctuated by political-economic crisis, and neoliberalism is no
exception. Born of recessions, monetary turbulence, political unrest, and energy price …

In the early 1990s it was de rigueur to argue that the challenge of competitiveness in an age
of ever greater economic interdependence was likely to put pay to the institutional diversity …