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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):177-179; doi:10.1093/es/khj012
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.

Kathleen Thelen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83768-5, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54674-5, $29.99 (paper).

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Kathleen Thelen has written an incredibly fascinating book that should be obligatory reading for anyone interested in the history of skill formation or the evolution of institutions in general. For those working on the "varieties of capitalism," path-dependency, punctured equilibrium, or historical institutionalism, this text should feature prominently in their work. Thelen’s goal in this book is to discover why Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan pursued different "paths" of skill formation. She traces the origin of each path . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Daniel Friel

Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires


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