Bruno Amable
Biographic Data
| ID | 302320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Amable |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | Amable |
| SIGNATURE | AMABLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Cité |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7186-6245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Brief Encounter. The Distant Co-evolution of Régulation Theory and Evolutionary Economics
Between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s, the perception of many contributors to régulation theory and evolutionary economics was that, because of a certain proximity in the issues and presuppositions of each approach, it might be fruitful for both to engage in a scientific dialogue that could lead to what Chris Freeman imagined might be an original synthesis. More than three decades later, it has to be said that the synthesis has not taken place…
A Economia Política de Crises Estruturais
Um dos eixos fundamentais do 5o Encontro Anual de Economia Política foi a recorrência das crises, suas causas e implicações. A crise da COVID-19 parece ser apenas mais uma, de um leque sucessivo de crises que vão acelerando em termos de recorrência. Os impactos da pandemia estão longe de estarem compreendidos. A resposta à crise pandémica e a futuras crises exigirá uma mudança profunda das sociedades e das economias. Essa transformação deverá ser…
O regresso da Economia Política
O estreitamento da ciência económica limitou a capacidade para entender as economias. No ensino e na investigação escasseiam abordagens capazes de entender contextos e complexidades. É preciso uma nova visão que dê conta das mudanças e transformações na sociedade contemporânea. A ciência económica impregnou o debate público e tem vindo a influenciar a agenda política e a concepção de políticas públicas com noções como a eficiência dos mercados, o…
Multidimensional social conflict and institutional change
This paper proposes a political economy of social conflict, institutional change and crises based on the diversity of perceived interests among social groups. The multidimensional conflict includes ideology, institutions, and politics. Social groups may be in a dominant or dominated position in one or the other dimension, and the nature of social conflict reflects the differences in positions of the various social groups in these dimensions. Poli…
The brahmin left, the merchant right and the bloc bourgeois
In a recent paper, Piketty argues that the vote for the left in France, the UK and the USA tends increasingly to be associated with a high education level whereas a traditional class- or income-based divide separated left from right individuals in the 1950s and 1960s. The current situation would be characterised by a dominance of ‘elites’ in left and right constituencies: financially rich elites vote for the right (merchant right), high-education…
New approaches to political economy
The discussion on 'New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)' gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of political economy. Thereby, it invites us to broaden our knowledge regarding manifold novel approaches, which make use of more complex methods to study the less stable, less predictable, but faster changing realities of smaller or bigger geographical regions. In this discussion…
« Le néoréalisme, ou comment alliances sociales et politiques publiques se déterminent mutuellement »: Entretien avec Bruno Amable et Stefano Palombarini
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The Political Economy of the Neoliberal Transformation of French Industrial Relations
The author advances the literature on the role of the state in the decentralization of industrial relations in France by providing a political economic analysis of Right- and Left-backed governments in recent decades. While both have pursued reforms to reduce regulation and to increase labor market flexibility, they have used the state apparatus in different ways to achieve these goals. The Right has reformed labor law by obtaining partial suppor…
Institutional complementarities in the dynamic comparative analysis of capitalism
The concept of institutional complementarity plays an important role in the comparative analysis of capitalism. It has often been criticised for being too static and too functionalist, unable to explain change because it would propose a view of institutional forms fitting perfectly with one another. After having presented the concept and its interest for comparative capitalism, this article argues in favour of its usefulness to explain institutio…
Quels effets des baisses de durée d’indemnisation sur la durée de chômage et le type d’emploi repris: Le cas des lois Hartz
Dans cet article, nous analysons les effets microéconomiques de l’une des mesures phares des réformes allemandes Hartz (2003-2005), à savoir la réduction de la durée d’indemnisation du chômage pour les chômeurs de plus de 45 ans. Nous étudions deux effets potentiels de cette mesure : sur le taux de reprise d’emploi, mais aussi sur le type d’emploi repris (stabilité de l’emploi retrouvé et type de contrats de travail). À partir d’une estimation en…
Who wants the Contrat de Travail Unique ? Social Support for Labor Market Flexibilization in France
In France, a proposal was made to substitute a unique labor contract with a degree of employment protection increasing with tenure to the existing open‐end and fixed‐term contracts. Using survey data, this paper analyzes the social support for this contrat de travail unique (CTU). Contrary to the prediction of insider/outsider theories, support for the CTU comes from insider groups, whereas most outsider groups oppose it. This result may be the c…
Four books on (neo-)liberalism
(Neo-)liberalism has been at the centre of many debates on economic institutions and policies as well as social issues, and particularly so since the financial crisis of 2008. The Great Recession was initially regarded by many as the end of the belief in the supreme efficiency of the market as well as the return of the state. Yet, only a few years after the subprime crisis and still in the midst of a long-lasting recession, in Europe at least, th…
Bringing Asia into the comparative capitalism perspective
While Western industrialized societies have almost gained a canonical status within political economy approaches (Blyth, 2003), Asian economies and their internal diversities have received less attention. This special issue of Socio-Economic Review1 aims to integrate Asia into the comparative capitalism approach in a more differentiated way, and hereby hopes to substantiate it. Asian countries are becoming the leading economies worldwide and conf…
Changing French capitalism: Political and systemic crises in France
International audience
Crise politique et crise systémique en France
Morals and politics in the ideology of neo-liberalism
The aim of this article is to analyse the links between the moral and political aspects of neo-liberal ideology and how appeals to certain ethics may legitimate the establishment of the institutions of neo-liberal capitalism through political action. It presents the original characteristics of neo-liberal ideology by emphasizing how it differs from classical liberalism. Although pressures and contradictions are inherent in neo-liberalism, it is p…
Patents as Collateral
The effect of employment protection and product market regulation on labour market performance: Substitution or complementarity
Crisis in the regulation regime--a new paradigm
At the 21st SASE conference in Paris, in July 2009, a session was organized around the question of whether the financial and economic crisis would lead to the emergence of a new paradigm in the regulation regime
Structural reforms in Europe and the (in)coherence of institutions
The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of some structural reforms on the institutional coherence of OECD countries, particularly in Continental Europe, and on their economic performance, particularly as regards employment. Because institutions in developed political economies are interrelated through a complex network of complementarities, institutional change has consequences beyond the area concerned in a reform. This also implies…
Vers un changement de modèle
Resumé Le capitalisme n'est est certes pas à sa première alarme. Mais ce sont un changement institutionnel et de nouveaux compromis sociaux qui s'imposent aujourd'hui
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions and Complementarities in the European Economy ‐ Edited by Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher
International audience
The Differentiation of Social Demands in Europe. The Social Basis of the European Models of Capitalism
A neorealist approach to institutional change and the diversity of capitalism
This article proposes a theoretical approach to the political economy of institutional change and comparative capitalism. It argues that the firm-based approach of the Varieties of Capitalism literature cannot satisfactorily integrate the political aspects of institutional change and must in one way or another rely on some type of economic functionalism. By linking explicitly political strategies and demands for institutional change, a neorealist…
Employment Performance and Institutions: New Answers to an Old Question
Morals and politics in the ideology of neo-liberalism
The aim of this article is to analyse the links between the moral and political aspects of neo-liberal ideology and how appeals to certain ethics may legitimate the establishment of the institutions of neo-liberal capitalism through political action. It presents the original characteristics of neo-liberal ideology by emphasizing how it differs from classical liberalism. Although pressures and contradictions are inherent in neo-liberalism, it is p…
Dialogue on 'Institutional complementarity and political economy
Martin Höpner's paper was written to structure discussions at a workshop of the 'Complementarity Project', which was held in Paris, 26-27 September 2003. The project was organized by Bruno Amable and Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Martin Höpner and Wolfgang Streeck. The subject of the workshop was the complementarity, real or imagined, of financial markets and industrial relations in present-day 'varieties of capitalism'. Apart from the organizers, …
A neorealist approach to institutional change and the diversity of capitalism
This article proposes a theoretical approach to the political economy of institutional change and comparative capitalism. It argues that the firm-based approach of the Varieties of Capitalism literature cannot satisfactorily integrate the political aspects of institutional change and must in one way or another rely on some type of economic functionalism. By linking explicitly political strategies and demands for institutional change, a neorealist…
Institutional complementarity and diversity of social systems of innovation and production
This article proposes an institutional analysis of modern capitalist economies. It argues that the institutional dimension is crucial if one wants to account for the coexistence of different types of modern developed economies, characterized by substantially different institutional structures. It explains why no generalized pattern of convergence towards the same economic model should be expected, in spite of 'globalization'. An institutional ana…
New approaches to political economy
The discussion on 'New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)' gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of political economy. Thereby, it invites us to broaden our knowledge regarding manifold novel approaches, which make use of more complex methods to study the less stable, less predictable, but faster changing realities of smaller or bigger geographical regions. In this discussion…
Changing French capitalism: Political and systemic crises in France
International audience
How do financial markets affect industrial relations: An Institutional Complementarity Approach
International audience
Bringing Asia into the comparative capitalism perspective
While Western industrialized societies have almost gained a canonical status within political economy approaches (Blyth, 2003), Asian economies and their internal diversities have received less attention. This special issue of Socio-Economic Review1 aims to integrate Asia into the comparative capitalism approach in a more differentiated way, and hereby hopes to substantiate it. Asian countries are becoming the leading economies worldwide and conf…
The Differentiation of Social Demands in Europe. The Social Basis of the European Models of Capitalism
The Political Economy of the Neoliberal Transformation of French Industrial Relations
The author advances the literature on the role of the state in the decentralization of industrial relations in France by providing a political economic analysis of Right- and Left-backed governments in recent decades. While both have pursued reforms to reduce regulation and to increase labor market flexibility, they have used the state apparatus in different ways to achieve these goals. The Right has reformed labor law by obtaining partial suppor…
Crisis in the regulation regime--a new paradigm
At the 21st SASE conference in Paris, in July 2009, a session was organized around the question of whether the financial and economic crisis would lead to the emergence of a new paradigm in the regulation regime
Systèmes financiers et croissance: "Les effets du "court-termisme
[fre] Dans le cadre d'un modèle de croissance endogène fondé sur l'innovation, cet article compare deux modes de financement de l'économie. Dans un cas, le financement est assuré par une multitude de petits prêteurs, dans l'autre, une seule grande banque fournit l'ensemble des prêts. Il existe deux types de projets d'innovation, un de court terme et un de long terme, et deux types d'innovateurs, certains étant efficaces et d'autres non. Le mod…
Multidimensional social conflict and institutional change
This paper proposes a political economy of social conflict, institutional change and crises based on the diversity of perceived interests among social groups. The multidimensional conflict includes ideology, institutions, and politics. Social groups may be in a dominant or dominated position in one or the other dimension, and the nature of social conflict reflects the differences in positions of the various social groups in these dimensions. Poli…
The brahmin left, the merchant right and the bloc bourgeois
In a recent paper, Piketty argues that the vote for the left in France, the UK and the USA tends increasingly to be associated with a high education level whereas a traditional class- or income-based divide separated left from right individuals in the 1950s and 1960s. The current situation would be characterised by a dominance of ‘elites’ in left and right constituencies: financially rich elites vote for the right (merchant right), high-education…
Four books on (neo-)liberalism
(Neo-)liberalism has been at the centre of many debates on economic institutions and policies as well as social issues, and particularly so since the financial crisis of 2008. The Great Recession was initially regarded by many as the end of the belief in the supreme efficiency of the market as well as the return of the state. Yet, only a few years after the subprime crisis and still in the midst of a long-lasting recession, in Europe at least, th…
Can financial infrastructures foster economic development
Systèmes financiers et croissance: "Les effets du " court-termisme
teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Europe in the world technological competition
Systèmes financiers et croissance: "Les effets du " court-termisme
teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Systèmes financiers et croissance: "Les effets du "court-termisme
[fre] Dans le cadre d'un modèle de croissance endogène fondé sur l'innovation, cet article compare deux modes de financement de l'économie. Dans un cas, le financement est assuré par une multitude de petits prêteurs, dans l'autre, une seule grande banque fournit l'ensemble des prêts. Il existe deux types de projets d'innovation, un de court terme et un de long terme, et deux types d'innovateurs, certains étant efficaces et d'autres non. Le mod…
Croissance et capital public dans une économie d'endettement
Amable Bruno, Chatelain Jean-Bernard. Croissance et capital public dans une économie d'endettement. In: Revue économique, volume 46, n°2, 1995. pp. 157-167
La concurrence imparfaite entre les intermédiaires financiers est-elle toujours néfaste à la croissance économique
teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Confiance dans le système bancaire et croissance économique
Cet article propose un modèle de croissance endogène dans lequel on introduit des intermédiaires financiers en concurrence imparfaite et une rémunération du capital soumise à un choc macroéconomique. Les anticipations rationnelles des ménages sur le risque de faillites bancaires (dont ils supportent en partie les coûts) influencent leurs décisions de dépôts, contribuent à déterminer le taux de croissance, et peuvent être à l'origine d'un piège à…
Institutional complementarity and diversity of social systems of innovation and production
This article proposes an institutional analysis of modern capitalist economies. It argues that the institutional dimension is crucial if one wants to account for the coexistence of different types of modern developed economies, characterized by substantially different institutional structures. It explains why no generalized pattern of convergence towards the same economic model should be expected, in spite of 'globalization'. An institutional ana…
Can Financial Infrastructures Foster Economic Development
The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages
Optimal Capacity in the Banking Sector and Economic Growth
Can financial infrastructures foster economic development
The Diversity of Modern Capitalism
Capitalist economies have developed with a fair amount of diversity among themselves, which should have resulted in dramatic differences in levels of development. The fact that these differences are for the most part not noticeable may indicate that capitalism is based on such robust mechanisms that it accommodates varied institutional environments. In other words, institutional differences would be akin to national folklore, with few if any cons…
The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution
Labour and Product Market Reforms: A Case for Policy Complementarity
Dialogue on 'Institutional complementarity and political economy
Martin Höpner's paper was written to structure discussions at a workshop of the 'Complementarity Project', which was held in Paris, 26-27 September 2003. The project was organized by Bruno Amable and Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Martin Höpner and Wolfgang Streeck. The subject of the workshop was the complementarity, real or imagined, of financial markets and industrial relations in present-day 'varieties of capitalism'. Apart from the organizers, …
How do financial markets affect industrial relations: An Institutional Complementarity Approach
International audience
Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited
Le modèle européen ébranlé
Il y a plusieurs modeles de capitalisme. Malgre la montee en puissance des marches financiers, on aurait tort de croire a une convergence ineluctable des capitalismes europeens vers le modele anglo-saxon
Employment Performance and Institutions: New Answers to an Old Question
Institutions, chômage et inactivité dans les pays de l'ocde
International audience
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions and Complementarities in the European Economy ‐ Edited by Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher
International audience
The Differentiation of Social Demands in Europe. The Social Basis of the European Models of Capitalism
A neorealist approach to institutional change and the diversity of capitalism
This article proposes a theoretical approach to the political economy of institutional change and comparative capitalism. It argues that the firm-based approach of the Varieties of Capitalism literature cannot satisfactorily integrate the political aspects of institutional change and must in one way or another rely on some type of economic functionalism. By linking explicitly political strategies and demands for institutional change, a neorealist…
Structural reforms in Europe and the (in)coherence of institutions
The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of some structural reforms on the institutional coherence of OECD countries, particularly in Continental Europe, and on their economic performance, particularly as regards employment. Because institutions in developed political economies are interrelated through a complex network of complementarities, institutional change has consequences beyond the area concerned in a reform. This also implies…
Vers un changement de modèle
Resumé Le capitalisme n'est est certes pas à sa première alarme. Mais ce sont un changement institutionnel et de nouveaux compromis sociaux qui s'imposent aujourd'hui
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