John Zysman
Biographic Data
| ID | 577281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Zysman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Zysman |
| SIGNATURE | ZYSMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4272-4985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 492 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Responding to platform firm power: Differing National Responses
Aware of the power of platform firms and the risks of the platform economy, governments are reconsidering the dominant laissez faire approach in favour of strategies that regulate the power of platform firms. transnational dynamics play an important role in shaping emerging national regimes, but we argue that governments are also influenced by three factors that operate primarily at domestic level: the agency of platform firms, the impact of firs…
Platform power and regulatory politics: Polanyi for the twenty-first century
Intensifying concerns about online platform firms’ rapid rise, expansion, and growing asymmetric power have attracted political scrutiny and undermined the legitimacy of a minimalist regulatory regime that is giving way to intense debate and increasingly interventionist governmental policies and enforcement actions. First, we view the rise of, and recent political responses to, the often-predatory power and manipulative conduct of platform firm i…
Automation, AI & Work
We characterize artificial intelligence as “routine-biased technological change on steroids,” adding intelligence to automation tools that substitute for humans in physical tasks and substituting for humans in routine and increasingly nonroutine cognitive tasks. We predict how AI will displace humans from existing tasks while increasing demand for humans in new tasks in both manufacturing and services. We also examine the effects of AI-enabled di…
Algorithms, data, and platforms: The diverse challenges of governing AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses a set of interwoven challenges. A new general purpose technology likened to steam power or electricity, AI must first be clearly defined before considering its global governance. In this context, a useful definition is technology that uses advanced computation to perform at human cognitive capacity in some task area. Like electricity, AI cannot be governed in isolation, but in the context of a broader digital te…
The platform economy matures: Measuring Pervasiveness and Exploring Power
Online platforms are pervasive and powerful in today's economy. We explore the increased centrality of platforms in two ways. First, we measure the extent to which platforms are insinuating themselves into the economy. We accomplish this by analyzing the presence of platforms as intermediating organizations across all US service industries at the six-digit North American Industry Classification System code level. Our results show that 70% of serv…
Winning coalitions for climate policy
Green industrial policy builds support for carbon regulation
Double Bind: Governing the Economy in an ICT Era
The recent financial debacle was preceded by a long complex evolution in the way firms created value and organized. The fragmentation of production, intense global competition, and the information and communication technology (ICT)‐enabled transformation of services are all part of a story that was framed by, and in turn further framed, ideologies of deregulation and self‐regulation. In the aftermath of the crisis political leaders worldwide find…
The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation1
There is currently a fundamental transformation of services, a transformation central to the growth of productivity and competition in the global economy. This transformation, a response to commodification generated by decomposition of production and intensified competition in global markets, is driven by developments in IT tools, the uses they are being put to, and the networks they run on. The service transformation is changing how firms add va…
Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare and Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare. By Torben Iversen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226p. $29.99. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America. By Jonas Pontusson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 242p. $19.95. Can policymakers reconcile the dual objectives of economic development and social justice? Are equity and sustained growth in an inherent conflict? How does the welfare system fit in a capitalist ma…
How Wealthy Nations Can Stay Wealthy: Innovation and Adaptability in a Digital Era
The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization
Andrew Shonfield's Modern Capitalism: The changing global economy
Reunifying Europe in an Emerging World Economy: Economic Heterogeneity, New Industrial Options, and Political Choices
This article examines the industrial reintegration of central and eastern Europe into the broader European economy in the context of the emerging world economy. Since the Cold War, Europe’s economic heterogeneity has sharply increased, making it comparable to Asia. And Europe as a whole must adapt to a global economy of three regional centres and industrial strategies implemented through International Production Networks (IPNs). The article asks …
The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities
(1996). The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities. New Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 157-184
Leader or Strategic Follower: What Role for the Japanese State
How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth
This paper is concerned with approaches to growth theory that argue for historically created, institutionally rooted national development trajectories. There are varied ways of organizing market economies, and there is more than just one kind of capitalism. The institutional approach begins with the observation that markets, embedded in political and social institutions, are the creation of government and politics. Indeed all economic interchange…
From Failure to Fortune? European Electronics in a Changing World Economy
European industrial policy for high technology must be reformulated. First, past support of producers over users has undermined producers by not creating a sophisticated market, the single most powerful industrial policy tool. Second, global trade and investment are regionalizing. Policies aimed at rejuvenating sectors such as electronics must consider that regionalization will make access to technology and markets increasingly asymmetrical. The …
France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform.Michael Loriaux
US power, trade and technology
John Zysman outlines the increasing economic and technological autonomy of Western Europe and Japan and draws out the implications for the balance of power among the Western allies. He argues that the changed global economic structure will result in a changed security structure, and that America's relative loss of position in trade and technology will undermine its ability to influence world politics in the future. He explores the reasons for the…
L'après-communisme: Une troisième voie
Innovation, Technology, and Finance
Journal Article Arnold Heertje (ed.): Innovation, Technology and Finance Get access Innovation, Technology, AND Finance. Edited by Arnold Heertje. Basil Blackwell for the European Investment Bank. Oxford and New York, 1988. John Zysman John Zysman *Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volum…
Politics and Productivity: How Japan's Development Strategy Works
Recasting the European Bargain
Under the banner of “1992,” the European Communities aim to remove all barriers to the movement of persons, capital, and goods among the member countries. The 1992 movement comprises a set of bargains among European elites. Structural change (relative U.S. decline and Japanese ascent) provoked a rethinking of European roles and interests. The 1992 project emerged as a response because of: (1) the policy leadership exercised by the Commission of t…
The Dynamics of Trade and Employment
Manufacturing Matters
Recasting the European Bargain
Under the banner of “1992,” the European Communities aim to remove all barriers to the movement of persons, capital, and goods among the member countries. The 1992 movement comprises a set of bargains among European elites. Structural change (relative U.S. decline and Japanese ascent) provoked a rethinking of European roles and interests. The 1992 project emerged as a response because of: (1) the policy leadership exercised by the Commission of t…
Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and Politics of Industrial Change
The deterioration in the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies during the 1970s provoked an intense debate about the role of government in economic adjustment and growth. In Governments, Markets, and Growth , John Zysman makes a significant contribution to our understanding of these critical international issues by demonstrating that there is a direct relationship between a nation's financial system and its government's abil…
The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities
(1996). The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities. New Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 157-184
The platform economy matures: Measuring Pervasiveness and Exploring Power
Online platforms are pervasive and powerful in today's economy. We explore the increased centrality of platforms in two ways. First, we measure the extent to which platforms are insinuating themselves into the economy. We accomplish this by analyzing the presence of platforms as intermediating organizations across all US service industries at the six-digit North American Industry Classification System code level. Our results show that 70% of serv…
Platform power and regulatory politics: Polanyi for the twenty-first century
Intensifying concerns about online platform firms’ rapid rise, expansion, and growing asymmetric power have attracted political scrutiny and undermined the legitimacy of a minimalist regulatory regime that is giving way to intense debate and increasingly interventionist governmental policies and enforcement actions. First, we view the rise of, and recent political responses to, the often-predatory power and manipulative conduct of platform firm i…
American industry in international competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies
Algorithms, data, and platforms: The diverse challenges of governing AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses a set of interwoven challenges. A new general purpose technology likened to steam power or electricity, AI must first be clearly defined before considering its global governance. In this context, a useful definition is technology that uses advanced computation to perform at human cognitive capacity in some task area. Like electricity, AI cannot be governed in isolation, but in the context of a broader digital te…
Political strategies for industrial order: State, market, and industry in France
The French state in the international economy
The French state bureaucracy, able partially to shelter itself from Parliament and to influence the industrial sector directly, has been able to protect national interests in an economically interdependent world. It struck a regional bargain that committed agriculture to the European Community and in effect provided a German subsidy to French farmers. It mediated between the national and international market to promote industrial modernization an…
Double Bind: Governing the Economy in an ICT Era
The recent financial debacle was preceded by a long complex evolution in the way firms created value and organized. The fragmentation of production, intense global competition, and the information and communication technology (ICT)‐enabled transformation of services are all part of a story that was framed by, and in turn further framed, ideologies of deregulation and self‐regulation. In the aftermath of the crisis political leaders worldwide find…
The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation1
There is currently a fundamental transformation of services, a transformation central to the growth of productivity and competition in the global economy. This transformation, a response to commodification generated by decomposition of production and intensified competition in global markets, is driven by developments in IT tools, the uses they are being put to, and the networks they run on. The service transformation is changing how firms add va…
Politics and Productivity: How Japan's Development Strategy Works
Reunifying Europe in an Emerging World Economy: Economic Heterogeneity, New Industrial Options, and Political Choices
This article examines the industrial reintegration of central and eastern Europe into the broader European economy in the context of the emerging world economy. Since the Cold War, Europe’s economic heterogeneity has sharply increased, making it comparable to Asia. And Europe as a whole must adapt to a global economy of three regional centres and industrial strategies implemented through International Production Networks (IPNs). The article asks …
Automation, AI & Work
We characterize artificial intelligence as “routine-biased technological change on steroids,” adding intelligence to automation tools that substitute for humans in physical tasks and substituting for humans in routine and increasingly nonroutine cognitive tasks. We predict how AI will displace humans from existing tasks while increasing demand for humans in new tasks in both manufacturing and services. We also examine the effects of AI-enabled di…
How Wealthy Nations Can Stay Wealthy: Innovation and Adaptability in a Digital Era
Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change
Journal Article Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change Get access Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change. By JOHN ZYSMAN. (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. Pp. 358. £18.50.) Alan Butt Philip Alan Butt Philip University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 377, 1 Mar…
Responding to platform firm power: Differing National Responses
Aware of the power of platform firms and the risks of the platform economy, governments are reconsidering the dominant laissez faire approach in favour of strategies that regulate the power of platform firms. transnational dynamics play an important role in shaping emerging national regimes, but we argue that governments are also influenced by three factors that operate primarily at domestic level: the agency of platform firms, the impact of firs…
The Dynamics of Trade and Employment
France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform.Michael Loriaux
US power, trade and technology
John Zysman outlines the increasing economic and technological autonomy of Western Europe and Japan and draws out the implications for the balance of power among the Western allies. He argues that the changed global economic structure will result in a changed security structure, and that America's relative loss of position in trade and technology will undermine its ability to influence world politics in the future. He explores the reasons for the…
American Industry in International Competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies
Double or Nothing: Open Trade and Competitive Industry
J?^rade disputes have moved from the business page to the front page. No longer can they be considered ordinary commercial frictions to be dealt with in a routine way through existing institu tions and within agreed rules. Nor are they simply the unhappy consequences of an international economic decline that will melt away with the first burst of economic resurgence. It is becoming obvious that a basic long-term conflict over na tional economic p…
The State as Trader
Journal Article The State as Trader Get access John Zysman John Zysman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1978, Pages 264–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615651 Published: 01 April 1978
Political strategies for industrial order: State, market, and industry in France
The French state in the international economy
The French state bureaucracy, able partially to shelter itself from Parliament and to influence the industrial sector directly, has been able to protect national interests in an economically interdependent world. It struck a regional bargain that committed agriculture to the European Community and in effect provided a German subsidy to French farmers. It mediated between the national and international market to promote industrial modernization an…
The State as Trader
Journal Article The State as Trader Get access John Zysman John Zysman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1978, Pages 264–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615651 Published: 01 April 1978
American industry in international competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies
Double or Nothing: Open Trade and Competitive Industry
J?^rade disputes have moved from the business page to the front page. No longer can they be considered ordinary commercial frictions to be dealt with in a routine way through existing institu tions and within agreed rules. Nor are they simply the unhappy consequences of an international economic decline that will melt away with the first burst of economic resurgence. It is becoming obvious that a basic long-term conflict over na tional economic p…
Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and Politics of Industrial Change
The deterioration in the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies during the 1970s provoked an intense debate about the role of government in economic adjustment and growth. In Governments, Markets, and Growth , John Zysman makes a significant contribution to our understanding of these critical international issues by demonstrating that there is a direct relationship between a nation's financial system and its government's abil…
American Industry in International Competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies
Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change
Journal Article Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change Get access Governments, Markets, and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change. By JOHN ZYSMAN. (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. Pp. 358. £18.50.) Alan Butt Philip Alan Butt Philip University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 377, 1 Mar…
Manufacturing Matters
The Dynamics of Trade and Employment
Politics and Productivity: How Japan's Development Strategy Works
Recasting the European Bargain
Under the banner of “1992,” the European Communities aim to remove all barriers to the movement of persons, capital, and goods among the member countries. The 1992 movement comprises a set of bargains among European elites. Structural change (relative U.S. decline and Japanese ascent) provoked a rethinking of European roles and interests. The 1992 project emerged as a response because of: (1) the policy leadership exercised by the Commission of t…
L'après-communisme: Une troisième voie
Innovation, Technology, and Finance
Journal Article Arnold Heertje (ed.): Innovation, Technology and Finance Get access Innovation, Technology, AND Finance. Edited by Arnold Heertje. Basil Blackwell for the European Investment Bank. Oxford and New York, 1988. John Zysman John Zysman *Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volum…
US power, trade and technology
John Zysman outlines the increasing economic and technological autonomy of Western Europe and Japan and draws out the implications for the balance of power among the Western allies. He argues that the changed global economic structure will result in a changed security structure, and that America's relative loss of position in trade and technology will undermine its ability to influence world politics in the future. He explores the reasons for the…
France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform.Michael Loriaux
How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth
This paper is concerned with approaches to growth theory that argue for historically created, institutionally rooted national development trajectories. There are varied ways of organizing market economies, and there is more than just one kind of capitalism. The institutional approach begins with the observation that markets, embedded in political and social institutions, are the creation of government and politics. Indeed all economic interchange…
From Failure to Fortune? European Electronics in a Changing World Economy
European industrial policy for high technology must be reformulated. First, past support of producers over users has undermined producers by not creating a sophisticated market, the single most powerful industrial policy tool. Second, global trade and investment are regionalizing. Policies aimed at rejuvenating sectors such as electronics must consider that regionalization will make access to technology and markets increasingly asymmetrical. The …
The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities
(1996). The myth of a ‘Global’ economy: Enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities. New Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 157-184
Leader or Strategic Follower: What Role for the Japanese State
Andrew Shonfield's Modern Capitalism: The changing global economy
Reunifying Europe in an Emerging World Economy: Economic Heterogeneity, New Industrial Options, and Political Choices
This article examines the industrial reintegration of central and eastern Europe into the broader European economy in the context of the emerging world economy. Since the Cold War, Europe’s economic heterogeneity has sharply increased, making it comparable to Asia. And Europe as a whole must adapt to a global economy of three regional centres and industrial strategies implemented through International Production Networks (IPNs). The article asks …
The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization
Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare and Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare. By Torben Iversen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226p. $29.99. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America. By Jonas Pontusson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 242p. $19.95. Can policymakers reconcile the dual objectives of economic development and social justice? Are equity and sustained growth in an inherent conflict? How does the welfare system fit in a capitalist ma…
How Wealthy Nations Can Stay Wealthy: Innovation and Adaptability in a Digital Era
Economics (26 works) · Political science (21 works) · Politics (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economic system (11 works) · Law (9 works) · International trade (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Market economy (7 works)