Capitalist Alternatives: Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Microeconomics, institutions, and ideas
	Introduction to Part I
	1 State capitalism
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 The problem
		1.3 State capitalism and geo-economics: an overview
		1.4 State capitalism through the classic comparative economic systems criteria framework
		1.5 Mercantilism and state capitalism
		1.6 Rent-seeking systems: similarities and analogies
		1.7 Rent-seeking systems: some implications
		1.8 Conclusions
	2 Crony capitalism
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Cronyism in the literature: a tentative taxonomy
		2.3 The rent-seeking society: the basic microeconomic foundation
		2.4 Crony capitalism from a structural perspective
		2.5 Crony capitalism from an ideological perspective
		2.6 Conclusions
	3 Regulatory capitalism
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 A cross-country comparative look at the dynamics of OECD countries
		3.3 Explaining the “freer markets, more rules” puzzle
			3.3.1 Regulatory capture and regulatory arbitrage
			3.3.2 The independent regulatory agencies dilemma
			3.3.3 The role of ideas
			3.3.4 Putting all the pieces together
		3.4 The normative angle
	4 Entrepreneurial capitalism
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 The Schumpeterian benchmark
		4.3 Entrepreneurship and the theory of the market process
			4.3.1 Entrepreneurship as speculation
			4.3.2 Entrepreneurship as leadership
		4.4 Networks: the institutions for sustainable disequilibrium
			4.4.1 Corporate management, public administration, and social change
			4.4.2 Social entrepreneurship in the networked economy
		4.5 Political entrepreneurship and crony capitalism in information societies
		4.6 Ideological facets
		4.7 Conclusions
Part II Epistemic frameworks and perspectives
	Introduction to Part II
	5 Typologies and taxonomies in comparative economic systems
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Building typologies: variables and combinatorial analysis
		5.3 Building taxonomies
			5.3.1 Functional reduction
			5.3.2 Pattern analysis by k-means clustering
			5.3.3 Hierarchical cluster analysis
		5.4 Using taxonomies to evaluate outcomes
		5.5 The difficult problem of social ontology
	6 Stages, continuity, and change in comparative and historical political economy
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Revisiting stages theories
		6.3 Non-deterministic historical transitions
		6.4 Transition mechanisms
		6.5 Continuity and change in political economy and economic history
			6.5.1 Simon Kuznets: the role of historical, technical, and social innovations
			6.5.2 Douglass North: the limits of the neoclassical model
			6.5.3 Alexander Gerschenkron: a closer look at the conceptual problems
		6.6 Critical junctures, scenarios, and counterfactuals
		6.7 Conclusions
	7 Possible futures: thought experiments and scenarios in political economy
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Limited diversity, thought experiments, and comparative analysis
		7.3 Epistemic challenges of scenario-building
		7.4 Scenarios, thought experiments, and the growth of knowledge
		7.5 The diversity of approaches
		7.6 Analytic narratives and scenario-building
		7.7 Conclusions
Conclusions
References
Index