Uncertain Boundaries : The Social and Political Construction of European Economies (Hardcover)

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the shifting boundaries between market, politics and society; Part I. The Rise and Decline of the Political Regulation of the Economy: 1. The Keynesian welfare state and its crisis; 2. Unstable concertation; 3. Organised interests and public policies; 4. An anomalous case? State, economy and organised interests in Italy; Part II. The Micro-Social Regulation of Economic Adjustment: 5. The crisis of political exchange and the growth of micro-concertation; 6. The search for flexibility; 7. The problem of consensus in production; 8. An emblematic case: industrial adjustment and micro-concertation in Italy; Conclusion: the uncertain boundaries between macro and micro - the production of collective goods in the European economies; Notes; References; Index.