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Puzzling Out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions

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  • Mark J. Elam

    (Universily of Linkoping)

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This paper is an attempt to unravel the post-Fordist debate. This is perceived as a recurrent debate about the future of capitalism which rages especially fiercely during periods of crisis and transition. Three different perspectives on post-Fordism are identified and explored, each one evolving out of a particular tradition within classical political economy and stressing different driving-forces behind the historical development of capitalism. An underlying theme within the paper is the existence of significantly contrasting views about the openness of the new phase of capitalist development: disagreement over whether post-Fordism is primarily about the inevitable diffusion of a pervasive new discipline or the formation of strategic initiatives and the making of history.

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  • Mark J. Elam, 1990. "Puzzling Out the Post-Fordist Debate: Technology, Markets and Institutions," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 11(1), pages 9-37, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:11:y:1990:i:1:p:9-37
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X90111002
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