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The matching problem within comparative welfare state research: How to bridge abstract theory and specific hypotheses
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Winner-Take-All Politics in Europe? The Political Economy of Rising Inequality in Germany and Sweden
The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland Since the Turn of the Millennium
German Employers and the Origins of Unemployment Insurance: Skills Interest or Strategic Accommodation?
How Many Varieties of Capitalism? Comparing the Comparative Institutional Analyses of Capitalist Diversity
Assumption without representation: the unacknowledged abstraction from communities and social goods
We have not clearly acknowledged the abstraction from unpriceable “social goods” (derived from
communities) which, different from private and public goods, simply disappear if it is attempted to
market them. Separability from markets and economics has not been argued, much less established.
Acknowledging communities would reinforce rather than undermine them, and thus facilitate
the production of social goods. But it would also help economics by facilitating our understanding
of – and response to – financial crises as well as environmental destruction and many social problems,
and by reducing the alienation from economics often felt by students and the public
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