Diminishing Returns

Lucio Baccaro is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.Mark Blyth is the William R. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown University.Jonas Pontusson is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Geneva.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Rethinking Comparative CapitalismLucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth and Jonas PontussonPart 1: Theoretical PerspectivesChapter 1: Growth Models and Post Keynesian MacroeconomicsEngelbert Stockhammer and Özlem OnaranChapter 2: From Fordism to Franchise: Intellectual property and growth models in the Knowledge EconomyHerman Mark SchwartzChapter 3: Four Galtons and a Minsky: Growth Models from an IPE PerspectiveHerman Mark Schwartz and Mark BlythPart 2: Growth Models at ScaleChapter 4: The Political Economy of the Eurozone's Post-Crisis Growth ModelAlison Johnston and Matthias Matthijs Chapter 5: China's Growth Models in Comparative and International PerspectiveYeling Tan and James ConranChapter 6: The Politics of Growth Model Switching: Why Latin America Tries, and Fails, to Abandon Commodity-Driven GrowthJazmin SierraChapter 7: The FDI-led Growth Models of the East-Central and South-Eastern European PeripheryCornel Ban and Dragos AdascaliteiPart 3: Country Case StudiesChapter 8: Credit and Consumption-Led Growth Models in the United States and United KingdomAlexander Reisenbichler and Andreas WiedemannChapter 9: The Political-Economic Foundations of Export-led Growth: An Analysis of the German CaseLucio Baccaro and Martin Höpner Chapter 10: Rebalancing Balanced Growth: The Evolution of the Swedish Growth Model since the mid- 1990sLennart Erixon and Jonas PontussonChapter 11: Growth and Stagnation in Southern Europe: The Italian and Spanish Growth Models ComparedLucio Baccaro and Fabio BulfoneChapter 12: Global Capital and National Growth Models: The Cases of Ireland and LatviaDorothee Bohle and Aidan ReganPart 4: Policies and PoliticsChapter 13: Financialization and Growth RegimesCornel Ban and Oddny HelgadóttirChapter 14: Political Parties and Growth ModelsJonathan Hopkin and Dustin VossChapter 15: Growth Models Under AusterityEvelyne Hübscher and Thomas SattlerChapter 16: Welfare States and Growth Models: Accumulation and LegitimationJulia Lynch and Sara WatsonChapter 17: Green Growth ModelsJonas NahmIndex

This immensely stimulating book enriches our understanding of comparative and international political economy with new perspectives drawn from post-Keynesian economics about how and why growth models vary across countries and time. Bringing macroeconomics back into the center of the study of comparative capitalism, the authors skillfully weave economics and politics together to yield a distinctive view of the challenges facing the contemporary world. This is an illuminating volume that all political economists will want to read.