State and Market in a Globalized World

Transatlantic Perspectives. Edited by Detlef Junker, Wilfried Mausbach and Martin Thunert.

With the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, the relationship between state and market has become the subject of fierce dispute and intense public discussion. In this volume, twelve renowned authors from universities in the United States and Europe representing academic disciplines such as economics, law, political science, sociology, theology, history, and cultural studies offer unique transatlantic perspectives on this debate ranging from the role of regulatory regimes, the development of different varieties of market economies, production regimes and welfare states in the transatlantic world to the role of education and knowledge in a globalized world. They examine the origins of the financial crisis in the United States, reflect on the complex relationship between religion and capitalism, and analyze the rights-bearing individual and its relationship to both the market and the state. Together, the contributions in this volume paint a fascinating panoply of the ways in which globalization, or talk of it, affects ideas of the relation between state and market in various realms. This volume is the product of a conference held at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) between October 5 and 8, 2006. It also includes one special feature by David Abraham on the US response to the 2008 financial crisis. Preceded by an Introduction and a Special Feauture about the US Financial Crisis, the book is divided into five sections: Section 1: Markets in a Globalized World: State Regulation or Self Regulation? Section 2: From the Welfare State to the Market State? Section 3: Religion In and the Religion Of the Marketplace. Section 4: Of Risks and Rights: Man, State, and Market. Section 5: Educational Systems and the Recruitment of Elites. - Contents: David Abraham: The US Financial Crisis and the Response of the United States Government. - Peter-Christian Midler-Graff: The Rule of Law in the Relation of State and Market. German, European and US-American Approaches. - Harold James: Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism? - Reimut Zohlnhofer and Herbert Obinger: Retreat of the Interventionist State. The Decline of Public Subsidy Expenditure in the OECD World Since 1980. - Peter H. Lindert: Welfare State, Markets, and Efficiency. Some Borders Drawn by History. - William Schweiker: Religion In And The Religious Of The Marketplace. Theological Reflections On Global Dynamics. - Christoph Deutschmann: Capitalism and Religion: An Unorthodox View. - R. Laurence Moore: Popular Culture and the Global Market in Religion. - Werner Abelshauser: Fordism and the Advent of Mass Unemployment in Germany. - Lisa Heinzerling: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Fundamental Rights. - Michael Anderheiden: "Information Equilibrium" as a Measure of State-Market-Relations. The Case of Government Warnings for Consumer Protection. - Carmen Schmidt: Education and Elite Recruitment in Japan. - Gita Steiner-Khamsi: International Knowledge Banks in Education. Catalysts for Competition, Coercion and Convergence. 272 Seiten mit 24 Abb. und 33 Tab., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 164/Universitätsverlag Winter 2009)