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An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism

Political economists have always been interested in the differences in economic and political institutions that occur across countries. Some regard these differences as deviations from 'best practice' that will dissolve as nations catch up to a technological or organizational leader. Others see them as the distillation of more durable historical choices for a specific kind of society, since eco...

Introduction: The Political Economy of Crony Capitalism

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This note discusses some of the theoretical issues involved in the determination of quark masses. Unlike the leptons, quarks are connned inside hadrons and are not observed as physical particles. Quark masses cannot be measured directly, but must be determined indirectly through their innuence on hadron properties. As a result, the values of the quark masses depend on precisely how they are dee...

The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda

Edited by Victor Nee & Richard Swedberg: The Economic Sociology of Capitalism is published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, © 2005, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from t...

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