The 'varieties of capitalism'framework represents an influential methodological innovation in
the field of comparative political economy. It seeks to account for enduring spatial variations …

The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms,
worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach …

More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor.
Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to …

Das chinesische Wirtschaftswachstum der letzten 30 Jahre stellt mittlerweile jeden anderen
langen Aufschwung der neueren Geschichte in den Schatten. Wie konnte sich diese …

Although not central in the literature on Comparative Capitalisms (CC), the case of China is
highly salient. This is not just because of the country's sheer size and international economic …

This essay investigates how the degeneration of state socialist regimes and the transition to
market-Leninist political economies in China and Vietnam have shaped institutional …

China and Vietnam exhibit social relational and institutional attributes that are distinctive in
relation to all other actually existing varieties of capitalism. Indeed, China and Vietnam can …

This paper shows how wuwei (effortless action) and associated concepts drawn from Daoist
thought are applied in analyses of the Chinese market economy and state-economy …

1 The experience of institutional change in former socialist countries after 1989 and 1991,
and China's evolution since 1978, share a common characteristic, a wholesale …

What is the relationship between liberalism, illiberalism and despotic forms of dictatorship–
this is the central question of this paper. From the 1970's and especially after 1989-91 it …