Steven K Vogel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 290873 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven K Vogel |
| PRENOMES | Steven K |
| SOBRENOME | Vogel |
| ASSINATURA | VOGEL S K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Toward an Interdisciplinary Political Economy of Wages
This article reviews how some social scientists have transcended disciplinary boundaries in their scholarship on wage formation and proposes specific pathways for further trespassing. It contends that an interdisciplinary political economy should connect power to prices . This means that economists should bring power—including political influence and social status—into the heart of their analysis of wage formation, and sociologists and political …
Market Governance as a Balance of Power
This essay conceptualizes market governance as a balance of power and discusses the implications for current debates over antitrust policy. This framework offers a way to interpret and evaluate the 'neo-Brandeisian' school that views concentrated market power as a threat to democracy as well as to economic goals, such as productivity and innovation. It suggests that the government can deploy antitrust policy to alter the balance of power to promo…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
The Political Economy Reader
The Regulatory Roots of Inequality in America
Why has US income inequality surged to unprecedented heights since the 1970s? The rise in inequality was not simply the natural result of differential rates of return but was powerfully driven by politics and policy. This article explores the underlying mechanisms with a focus on market governance, including corporate governance, financial regulation, labor relations, antitrust, sector-specific regulation, and intellectual property rights. Firms …
Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan
Reviewed by: Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State by Masahiro Mogaki Steven K. Vogel (bio) Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State. By Masahiro Mogaki. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019. xiii, 184 pages. £80.00, cloth. Masahiro Mogaki wants to bring the state back in to the study of Japanese politics. His book refreshingly runs counter t…
Japan's Ambivalent Pursuit of Shareholder Capitalism
Could international financial capital impose shareholder sovereignty on Japan, the ultimate bastion of stakeholder capitalism? As the Japanese economy descended from boom to bust in the early 1990s, government and industry leaders called for a decisive move toward US-style shareholder capitalism, and increasing foreign share ownership exerted strong pressure to adapt corporate governance practices to Anglo-American norms. In practice, however, th…
Marketcraft
Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously but are crafted by individuals, by firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus marketcraft represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft. This book begins with the recognition that there are no free markets and that all markets are crafted, and then systematically examines the implications for analysis and policy. Scholars and policymakers are often trapped by a false dichotomy of…
The Re-Organization of Organized Capitalism
Japan's Labor Regime in Transition
Japan is at the forefront of a tectonic demographic shift common among advanced industrial countries, as its population growth has declined and now reversed. The government and industry are now less concerned about how to shed excess workers and more concerned about how to increase the workforce and to recruit and retain workers. This opens up the potential for "winwin" solutions that promote both economic growth and worker welfare. This article …
What Ever Happened to Japanese Electronics
Japan has not only suffered from dismal macroeconomic performance over the past two decades, but it has lost its edge in areas of its greatest competitive strength, such as electronics, especially information and communications technology (ICT) hardware Japanese electronics firms have declined by many standard measures of industrial performance, such as market share, exports, and profits
Routine Adjustment and Bounded Innovation
To unravel this puzzle, we must first recognize that market systems are embedded in a complex web of laws, practices, and norms (Polanyi 1944; Fligstein 2001). This implies that the process of liberalizing markets-just as much as the process of constraining markets-involves the transformation of laws, practices, and norms. Scholarship on the varieties of capitalism sometimes employs language that suggests that the Japanese model is more embedded …
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism
German and Japanese opinion leaders demand a decisive move toward the liberal market model, yet their governments have been slow to act. Why can't Germany and Japan reform? To unravel this puzzle, we must understand how the German and Japanese models of capitalism bind the potential winners from liberal reform, such as competitive manufacturing exporters, to the potential losers, such as workers and protected service industries. Competitive expor…
When Interests Are Not Preferences
Much work in political science today in some way or another involves the analysis of competition between interest groups, whether they are landlords and peasants, employers and workers, creditors and debtors, or producers and consumers. But how do we know what these groups want? Should we derive their interests from theory or discover their preferences through field research?1 These basic questions strike at the heart of current debates in compar…
International Games With National Rules
In the most global of industries, such as telecommunications and finance, international competition remains governed primarily by national regulations. When multiple national regulators govern international markets, the regulators themselves compete. But do they compete in laxity, trying to reduce regulation as much as possible, or do they compete in regulatory subsidy, trying to rig regulations to favor domestic firms? These questions are examin…
The Bureaucratic Approach to the Financial Revolution
While all industrialized countries have enacted financial reforms over the past decade, Japan's Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials have crafted a distinctive approach to reform. They have managed to pursue their own agenda while at the same time responding to international market pressures and domestic political demands. This article examines Japan's “financial system reform,” the process by which the MoF has recast the regulatory barriers betwe…
The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism
German and Japanese opinion leaders demand a decisive move toward the liberal market model, yet their governments have been slow to act. Why can't Germany and Japan reform? To unravel this puzzle, we must understand how the German and Japanese models of capitalism bind the potential winners from liberal reform, such as competitive manufacturing exporters, to the potential losers, such as workers and protected service industries. Competitive expor…
When Interests Are Not Preferences
Much work in political science today in some way or another involves the analysis of competition between interest groups, whether they are landlords and peasants, employers and workers, creditors and debtors, or producers and consumers. But how do we know what these groups want? Should we derive their interests from theory or discover their preferences through field research?1 These basic questions strike at the heart of current debates in compar…
The Bureaucratic Approach to the Financial Revolution
While all industrialized countries have enacted financial reforms over the past decade, Japan's Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials have crafted a distinctive approach to reform. They have managed to pursue their own agenda while at the same time responding to international market pressures and domestic political demands. This article examines Japan's “financial system reform,” the process by which the MoF has recast the regulatory barriers betwe…
International Games With National Rules
In the most global of industries, such as telecommunications and finance, international competition remains governed primarily by national regulations. When multiple national regulators govern international markets, the regulators themselves compete. But do they compete in laxity, trying to reduce regulation as much as possible, or do they compete in regulatory subsidy, trying to rig regulations to favor domestic firms? These questions are examin…
Japan's Ambivalent Pursuit of Shareholder Capitalism
Could international financial capital impose shareholder sovereignty on Japan, the ultimate bastion of stakeholder capitalism? As the Japanese economy descended from boom to bust in the early 1990s, government and industry leaders called for a decisive move toward US-style shareholder capitalism, and increasing foreign share ownership exerted strong pressure to adapt corporate governance practices to Anglo-American norms. In practice, however, th…
Japan's Labor Regime in Transition
Japan is at the forefront of a tectonic demographic shift common among advanced industrial countries, as its population growth has declined and now reversed. The government and industry are now less concerned about how to shed excess workers and more concerned about how to increase the workforce and to recruit and retain workers. This opens up the potential for "winwin" solutions that promote both economic growth and worker welfare. This article …
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
Market Governance as a Balance of Power
This essay conceptualizes market governance as a balance of power and discusses the implications for current debates over antitrust policy. This framework offers a way to interpret and evaluate the 'neo-Brandeisian' school that views concentrated market power as a threat to democracy as well as to economic goals, such as productivity and innovation. It suggests that the government can deploy antitrust policy to alter the balance of power to promo…
The Bureaucratic Approach to the Financial Revolution
While all industrialized countries have enacted financial reforms over the past decade, Japan's Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials have crafted a distinctive approach to reform. They have managed to pursue their own agenda while at the same time responding to international market pressures and domestic political demands. This article examines Japan's “financial system reform,” the process by which the MoF has recast the regulatory barriers betwe…
International Games With National Rules
In the most global of industries, such as telecommunications and finance, international competition remains governed primarily by national regulations. When multiple national regulators govern international markets, the regulators themselves compete. But do they compete in laxity, trying to reduce regulation as much as possible, or do they compete in regulatory subsidy, trying to rig regulations to favor domestic firms? These questions are examin…
When Interests Are Not Preferences
Much work in political science today in some way or another involves the analysis of competition between interest groups, whether they are landlords and peasants, employers and workers, creditors and debtors, or producers and consumers. But how do we know what these groups want? Should we derive their interests from theory or discover their preferences through field research?1 These basic questions strike at the heart of current debates in compar…
The Crisis of German and Japanese Capitalism
German and Japanese opinion leaders demand a decisive move toward the liberal market model, yet their governments have been slow to act. Why can't Germany and Japan reform? To unravel this puzzle, we must understand how the German and Japanese models of capitalism bind the potential winners from liberal reform, such as competitive manufacturing exporters, to the potential losers, such as workers and protected service industries. Competitive expor…
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
Routine Adjustment and Bounded Innovation
To unravel this puzzle, we must first recognize that market systems are embedded in a complex web of laws, practices, and norms (Polanyi 1944; Fligstein 2001). This implies that the process of liberalizing markets-just as much as the process of constraining markets-involves the transformation of laws, practices, and norms. Scholarship on the varieties of capitalism sometimes employs language that suggests that the Japanese model is more embedded …
What Ever Happened to Japanese Electronics
Japan has not only suffered from dismal macroeconomic performance over the past two decades, but it has lost its edge in areas of its greatest competitive strength, such as electronics, especially information and communications technology (ICT) hardware Japanese electronics firms have declined by many standard measures of industrial performance, such as market share, exports, and profits
Marketcraft
Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously but are crafted by individuals, by firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus marketcraft represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft. This book begins with the recognition that there are no free markets and that all markets are crafted, and then systematically examines the implications for analysis and policy. Scholars and policymakers are often trapped by a false dichotomy of…
The Re-Organization of Organized Capitalism
Japan's Labor Regime in Transition
Japan is at the forefront of a tectonic demographic shift common among advanced industrial countries, as its population growth has declined and now reversed. The government and industry are now less concerned about how to shed excess workers and more concerned about how to increase the workforce and to recruit and retain workers. This opens up the potential for "winwin" solutions that promote both economic growth and worker welfare. This article …
Japan's Ambivalent Pursuit of Shareholder Capitalism
Could international financial capital impose shareholder sovereignty on Japan, the ultimate bastion of stakeholder capitalism? As the Japanese economy descended from boom to bust in the early 1990s, government and industry leaders called for a decisive move toward US-style shareholder capitalism, and increasing foreign share ownership exerted strong pressure to adapt corporate governance practices to Anglo-American norms. In practice, however, th…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
The Political Economy Reader
The Regulatory Roots of Inequality in America
Why has US income inequality surged to unprecedented heights since the 1970s? The rise in inequality was not simply the natural result of differential rates of return but was powerfully driven by politics and policy. This article explores the underlying mechanisms with a focus on market governance, including corporate governance, financial regulation, labor relations, antitrust, sector-specific regulation, and intellectual property rights. Firms …
Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan
Reviewed by: Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State by Masahiro Mogaki Steven K. Vogel (bio) Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State. By Masahiro Mogaki. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019. xiii, 184 pages. £80.00, cloth. Masahiro Mogaki wants to bring the state back in to the study of Japanese politics. His book refreshingly runs counter t…
Market Governance as a Balance of Power
This essay conceptualizes market governance as a balance of power and discusses the implications for current debates over antitrust policy. This framework offers a way to interpret and evaluate the 'neo-Brandeisian' school that views concentrated market power as a threat to democracy as well as to economic goals, such as productivity and innovation. It suggests that the government can deploy antitrust policy to alter the balance of power to promo…
Toward an Interdisciplinary Political Economy of Wages
This article reviews how some social scientists have transcended disciplinary boundaries in their scholarship on wage formation and proposes specific pathways for further trespassing. It contends that an interdisciplinary political economy should connect power to prices . This means that economists should bring power—including political influence and social status—into the heart of their analysis of wage formation, and sociologists and political …
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