{"product_id":"great-transformations-9780521811767","title":"Great Transformations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book analyses political and economic change in the United States and Sweden from the 1920s to the end of the 1990s. The key claim is that economic ideas are political tools used by domestic groups in order to effect change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Great Transformations is a significant book in at least two ways. First, it extends academic debate about the causes of change in wealthy capitalist countries in important ways … Second, and more important, Great Transformations dissects profound changes in the state that leave many millions of individuals much more vulnerable … Those hostile to granting ideas a role in political explanation will have to engage with Blyth's framework, the mark of an important scholarly work.' West European Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Theory: 1. Karl Polanyi and institutional change; 2. A theory of institutional change; Part II. Cases: 3. Building American embedded liberalism; 4. Building Swedish embedded liberalism; 5. Disembedding liberalism: ideas to break a bargain; 6. Disembedding liberalism in the United States; 7. Disembedding liberalism in Sweden; Part III: 8. Conclusions.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018279846231,"sku":"9780521811767","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521811767.jpg?v=1750776287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/great-transformations-9780521811767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}