Ulrich Glassmann
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199551170
- eISBN:
- 9780191720802
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199551170.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy, Innovation
Accounts of the German socio-economic ‘model’ frequently start from an image of how that economy and its institutions operated in the 1980s and early 1990s. Not only has this image become out of ...
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Accounts of the German socio-economic ‘model’ frequently start from an image of how that economy and its institutions operated in the 1980s and early 1990s. Not only has this image become out of date, but the fact that the German system is one which is undergoing continuing change means that it is difficult to depict German institutions in a state of equilibrium. New accounts, or images, have to be presented, not only very differently from the outdated accounts but also as institutions undergoing change. This chapter offers an account of this ‘moving image’, rather than a ‘snapshot’ of contemporary German capitalism, to provide a base for the appraisal of the regional and sectoral variants of that economy that appears in later chapters.Less
Accounts of the German socio-economic ‘model’ frequently start from an image of how that economy and its institutions operated in the 1980s and early 1990s. Not only has this image become out of date, but the fact that the German system is one which is undergoing continuing change means that it is difficult to depict German institutions in a state of equilibrium. New accounts, or images, have to be presented, not only very differently from the outdated accounts but also as institutions undergoing change. This chapter offers an account of this ‘moving image’, rather than a ‘snapshot’ of contemporary German capitalism, to provide a base for the appraisal of the regional and sectoral variants of that economy that appears in later chapters.
