Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm098
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Gustav Schachter and Saul Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the US versus Continental Europe
Gustav Schachter and Saul Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the US versus Continental Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. 367 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4476-6, $134.95 (cloth)
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Spanning North America, Continental Europe, and Britain, Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies attempts to make a comparative, long-term historical account of why the balance of power between the State and the market varied so much from one economy to another. Drawing on classical texts in economic and political thought, Gustav Schacther and Saul Engelbourg argue that despite the significant changes in the State commitment to sustain economic and industrial development over the last three-century time period, a set of continuities can be tracked in both the
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