Capitalisms compared : welfare, work, and business /: welfare, work, and business. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John R. Bowman, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
• Other Names: Bowman, John R, 1952-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; Comparing Political Economies: Markets, Politics, and Institutions; Welfare States: Welfare State or Social Security State?; The Social Democratic Welfare State: Politics against Markets; The Liberal Welfare State: Embracing the Market; The Conservative Welfare State: Protecting Society from the Market; “Varieties of Capitalism:” Business Institutions and Strategies; Liberal Market Economies: Reaching for the Invisible Hand; Cooperative Market Economies: Patient Capital and Non-market Coordination; The plan of this book; Chapter 2: Health Policy; Is Health Care a Commodity?; Germany: Private Practice and Universal Coverage; Basic Structure: Compulsory Non-profit Insurance; Sweden: A Right to High Quality Health Care; Basic Structure: County-level Provision of Services; The United States: Incomplete Coverage through Private and Public Insurance; The Private Welfare State in Health Care; The Long Road to Health Policy Reform; Present Structure: From Public Insurance to No Insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; Private insurance; The Uninsured; Comparing Systems and Outcomes; Chapter 3: Pension Policy; Paying as You Go: Where Do Pensions Come From?; Germany: Earnings-related Public Pensions; Current Policy: The Shift away from Guaranteed Benefits; Sweden: Public Pensions with “Notional” Accounting; Current Policy: Introducing the Market to the Social Democratic Model; The United States: A Public-Private Pension Mix with Precarious Retirement; Social Security Today: A False Crisis; Private Pensions: The Disappearing Promise; Comparing Pension Systems and Outcomes; Chapter 4: Family Policy; Bringing Families Back In; Sweden: Paid Family Leaves and Universal Public Childcare; Current Policy: Toward Gender Equality?; Germany : Moving Beyond the Male Breadwinner Model; Current Policy: Family Leaves, Cash Assistance, and Child Care; The United States: Juggling Work and Family through the Market; Current Policy: The Limits of Tax Breaks; Comparing Policies and Outcomes; Chapter 5: The Labor Market; Human Effort as a Commodity: The Distinctive Features of Labor Markets; The “Two Faces of Unionism”: Are Unionized Firms more Efficient?; The Structure of Collective Bargaining and the Logic Centralized Wage-setting; Sweden: Flexible Centralization?; The Historic Compromise; Wage Bargaining in Contemporary Sweden; Workplace Participation and Job Security; Germany: Co-determination and Coordinated Bargaining; Background and Overview; Works Councils: Employee Representation on the Job; Labor Market Organizations and Collective Bargaining; Job Security and Labor Disputes; The United States: Bargaining among Unequals; The Rocky Path toward the Right to Unionize; The Unionized Sector: Organization; Wages, Benefits, and Protections: Comparing the Union and Non-union Sectors; The Decline of Unions in the US; Comparing Systems and Outcomes; Chapter 6: Corporate Governance and Finance; In Whose Interests? Shareholders Versus Stakeholders; The United States: Stock Market Capitalism Run Amok?; From Public Service Corporations to Industrial Capitalism; From Managerialism to “Shareholder Value”; Germany: Patient Capital and Bank Control; Postwar Corporate Governance: The Classic German Model; The Reform of German Corporate Governance; Sweden: Capitalist Enterprise without Capitalists?; The Post-War Model of Corporate Governance in Sweden; Swedish Corporate Governance in Transition?; The Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 and Its Aftermath; Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Viability of Alternative Forms of Capitalism; Globalization and the Economic Feasibility of Alternative Capitalisms; Neoliberalism and the Political Feasibility of Alternative Capitalisms; Conclusion: But Not in the US?;
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (392 pages)
• Subjects: 330.12/2; Capitalism -- Case studies; Policy sciences -- Case studies; Comparative economics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483323718; 1483323714
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