ビジネスと政府

HANNAH, Leslie

23090

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木曜４限

2

This course examines different national patterns of government-business interaction in advanced industrial economies in Europe, America and Japan over the last hundred years. It will enable participants to answer questions such as:-

-Why does the share of GDP accounted for by the state differ so much over time and between countries?

-Is their a developmental state engaging supportively with business best for developing economies with widespread co-ordination failures rather than those with well-developed market systems and at the forefront of technical innovation?

-How should a regulatory state focus its activities? What have been the effects of anti-trust, utilities regulation, financial regulation, health regulation, advertising controls and other forms of government regulations?

-How did state-owned enterprise perform relative to private enterprise in areas like railways, tobacco, banks, housing, airlines and electricity in different countries? What has been the effect of privatising such industries in recent years? What continuing regulation is required in privatised industries?

-In what circumstances will import tariffs help or harm business development and/or consumer welfare?

-Has globalisation been driven by and also itself driven the transfer of regulatory rights from national governments to international bodies? What are the limits of such processes?

-How has political structure or ideology (e.g democracy versus authoritarianism, militarism versus pacifism, one party dominance versus two party competition) affected the profile of government-business relations?

-How has defence expenditure shaped the pattern of industrial innovation?

-How have corporate governance laws or accounting regulations affected business in the major industrial nations?

Much of the reading and all the teaching of this course will be in English. There is no good textbook on this subject, but Frederic L Pryor, The Future of US Capitalism (Cambridge University Press 2002) has some interesting recent material, and is both more historical and more national than the title suggests!

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