This book uses comparative economic analysis to provide a common conceptual framework for all current European Union member states. Based on empirical investiga
The current crisis in Europe is being labelled, in mainstream media and politics, as a ‘public debt crisis’. The present book draws a markedly different pic
Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy
Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and st
The 2009 European sovereign debt crisis and the EU’s policy response to it have prompted scholars to re-think whether diverse national models of capitalism ca