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Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2005

Brian Waddell
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

Extract

Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. By Peter A. Swenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 448p. $24.95.

Peter Swenson has written a thought-provoking and edifying work of comparative political economy that examines the causal relationship between national differences in capitalist interests and divergent welfare state development. Given Swenson's ambitious challenge to many existing accounts of welfare developments and his detailed historical analysis, this book should attract some well-deserved attention.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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