In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies) - Softcover

Maier, Charles S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521346983 ISBN 13: 9780521346986

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the twentieth century. Successive essays ask: what ideological messages did American influence transmit to Europe after World War I, then again after World War II? Did Nazis and Italian fascists share an economic ideology or impose a unique economic system in the interwar period and during World War II? How do their accomplishments stack up comparatively against those of the liberal democracies? After 1945, what was the relationship between concepts of productivity and class division? How have the major experiences of twentieth-century inflation arisen out of class and interest-group rivalry? Most generally, what has been the representation of interests in capitalist political economies?

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Review

"Maier has brought together a number of his essays, illuminating a common theme with a powerful central analytical intelligence." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521346983
• ISBN 13: 9780521346986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304