it made no sense to focus on lofty national issues or policy debates within the Washington
beltway. Instead, he said,“all politics is local.” The mind-set of the successful politician …

Abstract Thomas Piketty's (2013) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of
the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of …

In trying to understand the roots of this predicament, as well as a way to extricate ourselves
from it, I have come to see the problem as a lack of leadership at the national level. This lack …

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) has been viewed as a potentially
beneficial but also a risky relationship for a firm. Earlier literature provides inconclusive …

ABSTRACT Since 1973 technological, political, regulatory, and economic forces have been
changing the worldwide economy in a fashion comparable to the changes experienced …

Neil Fligstein challenges prevailing theories of the corporation and proposes a radically new
view in which the firm is driven not so much by market forces as by the state and its policies …

This chapter begins by reviewing some of the principles. Building on these, the chapter then
discusses how social structures and social networks can affect economic outcomes like …

This article surveys the literature on regulatory arbitrage in four settings: labor regulation,
environmental protection, corporate governance, and banking and finance. For a regulatory …

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This collection examines the forces, both external and internal, that lead corporations to
behave efficiently and to create wealth. Corporations vest control rights in shareholders, the …