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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...
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This book analyses political and economic change in the Twentieth century through an examination of institutional change in the United States and Sweden from the 1920s to the end of the 1990's. The key claim is that economic ideas are powerful political tools 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...
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"[R]emarkably rigorous, original, and interesting work.... Blyth breaks new ground by using Frank Knight's concept of uncertainty as a linchpin for this theory of institutional change.... Highly recommended." Choice
"Economic historians frequently fail to connect their findings to broader political and sociological questions. Mark Blyth, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, avoids that pitfall in Great Transformations. In a well-researched comparative study of the United States and...
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0521010527
- ISBN 13 9780521010528
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages298
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