The End of Diversity?

Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism

Kozo Yamamura, Wolfgang Streeck

414 pages, parution le 09/05/2003

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Résumé

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing U.S. capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties of capitalism are now under intense pressure to converge to the U.S. model. Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck have gathered an international group of authors to examine the likelihood of convergence-to determine whether the global forces of Anglo-American capitalism will give rise to a single, homogeneous capitalist system. The chapters in this volume approach this question from five directions: international integration, technological innovation, labor relations and production systems, financial regimes and corporate governance, and domestic politics.

In their introduction, Yamamura and Streeck summarize the crises of performance and confidence that have beset German and Japanese capitalism and revived the question of competitive convergence. The editors ask whether the two countries, confronted with the political and economic exigencies of technological revolution and economic internationalization, must abandon their distinctive institutions and the competitive advantages these have yielded in the past, or whether they can adapt and retain such institutions, thereby preserving the social cohesion and economic competitiveness of their societies.

Contents

Introduction: Convergence or Diversity? Stability and Change in German and Japanese Capitalism
Germany and Japan: Binding versus Autonomy
Regional States: Japan and Asia, Germany in Europe
Germany and Japan in a New Phase of Capitalism: Confronting the Past and the Future
The Embedded Innovation Systems of Germany and Japan: Distinctive Features and Futures
The Future of Nationally Embedded Capitalism: Industrial Relations in Germany and Japan
Transformation and Interaction: Japanese, U.S., and German Production Models in the 1990s
From Banks to Markets: The Political Economy of Liberalization of the German and Japanese Financial Systems
Corporate Governance in Germany and Japan: Liberalization Pressures and Responses during the 1990s
The Re-Organization of Organized Capitalism: How the German and Japanese Models Are Shaping Their Own Transformations
Competitive Party Democracy and Political-Economic Reform in Germany and Japan: Do Party Systems Make a Difference?

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Éditeur(s)	Cornell University Press
Auteur(s)	Kozo Yamamura, Wolfgang Streeck
Parution	09/05/2003
Nb. de pages	414
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	607g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780801488207
ISBN13	978-0-8014-8820-7