Abstract

This special issue complements and extends existing work in business history to show how the discipline can contribute to the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature. The work in this collection delves deeper into our understanding of how VoC emerge and continue through the prism of business-government relations as the two principal actors in capitalist development. The focus of much of the existing canon on varieties of capitalism is centred on aggregated models of institutional environments. We take the cue from emerging work on the state and business in business history then to consider what this means for VoC, and to what end. In doing so, this collection bridges a number of different literatures, including those in business and economic history, economics, development studies, political economy and political science, to consider how ‘varieties of capitalism’ (VoC) shape, and are structured by, government-business relations over time.

摘要

本期特刊补充并扩展了商业史方面的现有工作，以展示该学科如何为各种资本主义 (VoC) 文学做出贡献。该系列中的工作深入探讨了我们对 VoC 如何通过作为资本主义发展的两个主要参与者的企业-政府关系的棱镜出现和继续的理解。许多现有经典对资本主义多样性的关注都集中在制度环境的聚合模型上。我们从商业史上关于国家和商业的新兴工作中汲取灵感，然后考虑这对 VoC 意味着什么，以及最终目的是什么。在此过程中，该合集连接了许多不同的文献，包括商业和经济史、经济学、发展研究、政治经济学和政治学领域的文献，