Contested Capitalism

<p>This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies with focused case studies on the US France Japan Austria and Germany.</p><p>The institutional arrangements of financial systems are widely seen as a central distinguishing feature of ‘varieties of capitalism’. Through a wide-range of case studies this book contends that political battles between landed interests labor and owners of capital have fundamentally shaped modern financial arrangements. Demonstrating how these conflicts have shaped contemporary financial architecture in a number of different contexts author Richard W. Carney offers an innovative approach to explaining the distinctive capitalist arrangements of nation-states. By demonstrating the importance of landed interests to nations’ institutional configurations the book has clear implications for developing countries such as India and China.</p><p>Providing a detailed account of the development of financial institutions this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science sociology business finance and law. It will also offer insights valuable to government policymakers analysts at international organizations and the business community.</p>