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The political consequences of the product cycle: industrial history and political outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

James R. Kurth

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What explains the continuing stagnation in the industrial economies of the West? What will be the impact of such stagnation upon domestic politics and upon international relations? Are there domestic and foreign policies which the state can undertake to bring about a return to sustained economic prosperity and a recapitulation of that lost golden age of 1948–1973? These are now the central questions for scholars in the emerging field of international political economy. A recent special issue of International Organization, edited by Peter Katzenstein, has presented some of the most useful and sophisticated approaches to these questions and analyses of the international political economy of the West during the period of the last thirty years.

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International Organization , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , Winter 1979 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © The IO Foundation and Cambridge University Press 1979

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