Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Causes of International Economic Integration -- 2. Technological Change and International Production -- 2.1. Cars: From national to international markets -- 2.2. The global, the regional, the corporation, and the state -- 2.3. Theories of international production -- 2.4. Technological change and the internationalization of production -- 2.5. Summing up -- 3. Globalization? -- 3.1. What's happening? -- 3.2. Globalization in the long run -- 3.3. Globalization's retreats -- 3.4. More useful ways of talking about changes in international interdependence and connectedness today -- 4. Some Economic Concepts -- 4.1. Standard trade theory -- 4.2. Origins: Smith and Ricardo -- 4.3. Increasing returns -- 4.4. Increasing returns and the theory of international trade -- 5. The Politics of International Trade -- 5.1. When the US and Germany were NICs -- 5.2. The rise and decline of free trade -- 5.3. Cheap grain -- 6. Empire -- 6.1. Natural resources, transaction costs, and colonial control -- 6.2. Control without colonies -- 6.3. Explaining decolonization -- 6.4. The consequences of designing institutions for resource extraction -- Part II: The Rise of Big Business -- 7. Changing Technology, Changing Industry -- 7.1. Industrial revolutions -- 7.2. Socioeconomic paradigms -- 7.3. Long waves and hegemonic power -- 8. The Origins of the Modern Corporation in the Age of Steel -- 8.1. How big machines led to big companies -- 8.2. Why did big machines produce big companies? Three theories -- 8.3. Mass production of machines -- 9. Fordism, or the Golden Age of Mass Production -- 9.1. The triumph of mass production -- 9.2. Stabilizing mass production -- 9.3. The end of the Golden Age -- Part III: Business Systems Today.

10. Two Forms of Post-Fordism -- 10.1. Japan and flexible mass production -- 10.2. Visions of a post-Fordist world -- 10.3. Explaining failures of transition: Production methods embedded in institutions -- 10.4. Actually existing American post-Fordism -- 11. Varieties of Capitalism -- 11.1. Institutional difference as a source of comparative advantage -- 11.2. Two varieties of capitalism? -- 11.3. Labor market institutions -- 11.4. Varieties of finance and corporate governance -- 11.5. Relationships between companies and systems of innovation -- 11.6. Political systems: Consensus and CMEs, majoritarianism and LMEs -- 11.7. Continuity and change in national business systems -- 12. Clusters -- 12.1. The industrial district narrative -- 12.2. What makes firms cluster? -- 12.3. The classic industrial district model versus actually existing clusters -- 12.4. Good jobs? -- 12.5. Conclusion -- 13. Newly Industrialized Countries -- 13.1. The Tigers: Overcoming the limits of ISI -- 13.2. The political economy of the developmental state -- 13.3. Varieties of Tiger: Differing institutions, production systems, and products -- 13.4 Later waves of new: NICs in the age of international production -- 14. Poverty Traps -- 14.1. Life and death -- 14.2. Life, death, and institutions -- 14.3. Institutions or policies? -- 14.4. Two obstacles to institutional change -- Part IV: Prospect -- 15. The Future: Regional Rivalries, Environmental Limits, and the Likely Retreat of the Global Corporation -- 15.1. Upgrading, diversification, and absorptive capacity -- 15.2. The economic and political logic of regions -- 15.3. Economic growth, global warming, and energy prices -- 15.4. Upgrading, regionalism, and high energy prices: Completing the picture -- Notes -- References -- Index.