Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century

by Mark Blyth

Book Overview

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century. Viewing both periods of change as part of the same dynamic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521811767
• ISBN13: 9780521811767
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"