ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems examines the institutional bases of economies, and the different ways in which economic activity can function, be organized and governed. It examines the complexity of this academic and research field, assessing the place of comparative economic studies within economics, paying due attention to future perspectives, and presenting critically important questions, analytical methods and relative approaches. This complements the recent revival of the systemic view of economic governance, which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and likely even more the renewed East-West clash epitomized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the West’s reaction to it.
The Handbook is divided into five parts. Each part deals with an issue of relevance for the discipline. The first and second parts look at the subject, content and approach of the discipline and its comparative method. The third part looks at the idiosyncratic nature of different economic systems and their constituent elements. The fourth part considers the outcomes that different economic systems generate and how these outcomes change following the evolution and transformation of economic systems. The last part takes stock and looks ahead at the challenges, from a theoretical and applied perspective, and the exogenous and endogenous factors promoting the advancement of the discipline, including the interaction between and competition among varied approaches and opposing paradigms.
The Handbook brings together leading international contributors to reflect on the relevant debates and case or country studies, provides a balanced overview of the results achieved and current knowledge, as well as evolving issues and new fields of research. The book provides researchers, students and analysts with a complete, critical and forward-looking presentation and analysis of the content, development, challenges and perspectives of comparative economic studies.
Chapters 4 and 22 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. Chapter 4 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and Chapter 22 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|140 pages
Comparative economic studies and the economic system: Theoretical and analytical approaches
chapter 4|22 pages
Elements of an Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Economic Studies
chapter 6|21 pages
Comparative Economic Systems and the Issue of Resilience
part II|138 pages
The comparative method: Comparative economics and comparisons of economic systems and economies
chapter 14|23 pages
Comparative Economic Studies of Transition
part III|130 pages
Actors, values and interactions in economic systems
chapter 15|25 pages
Transversal Skills in Higher Education Curricula
chapter 17|14 pages
What is the Potential Cost of Gender Inequality in Lost Earnings?
chapter 19|14 pages
Is it Possible to Improve Simultaneously Firm Performance and Workplace Well-Being?1
chapter 21|22 pages
Parallel Processes and Divergent Outcomes
part IV|128 pages
Markets, governance, performance and change of economic systems
part V|173 pages
Looking back and forging ahead: Where are comparative economic studies heading?