Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies

by Torben Iversen

Book Overview

This book helps explain one of the most intriguing and politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Contrary to new classical economics the focus is on explaining distribution and equilibrium unemployment, and contrary to neo-corporatist theory the role of monetary policy and rational expectation is integral to the analysis. The book makes two central arguments. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521645328
• ISBN13: 9780521645324
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"