David Soskice (economist)

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David Soskice (born July 6, 1942 ) is a British economist. He is Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy and a senior research fellow at Nuffield College of the University of Oxford , Research Professor at the American Duke University and professor emeritus of economics  at University College , Oxford, and at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research .

Life

Soskice was born in London as the son of the British Interior Minister Frank Soskice . It bears the name of his grandfather David Soskice , a Russian revolutionary journalist who fled to England from the Bolsheviks .

Soskice studied political science , philosophy and economics at Nuffield and Trinity College, University of Oxford.

From 1967 to 1990 he was a lecturer in economics at University College, Oxford. He then went to Berlin, where he was Research Professor at the Science Center for Social Research (WZB) until his retirement in 2007 . There he was also director of the research area Employment and Change .

In addition to his positions in Oxford and Berlin, Soskice has repeatedly worked as a visiting professor at other renowned universities, such as Harvard , Yale , Stanford , Berkeley , Cornell and as a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics . In the spring semesters he is also a regular research professor at Duke University . He also advised u. a. the OECD , the British Labor Party and the governments of Great Britain, France and Germany on labor market and education issues.

After his retirement in Germany, he returned to Nuffield College in Oxford as Research Professor for Comparative Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow .

In 2020 Soskice was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

research

Within his research area, political economy , Soskice's focus is on research into labor markets , systems of vocational training and production regimes .

By publishing a book of the same name together with Harvard professor Peter Hall , Soskice coined the term Varieties of Capitalism . This explanatory approach is based in large part on Soskice's own research since the late 1980s and bundles the discussions on neocorporatism , neo-institutionalism and new institutional economics into a stringent overall model for the first time.

The core of the Varieties of Capitalism is the systematic distinction between different types of capitalism on the basis of liberal and coordinated market economies . The approach enjoys great popularity both in political economy (because of its macroeconomic implications) and in business administration (because of its analytical focus on the organizational structure of individual companies).

With his approach Soskice also revolutionized the discussion about the consequences of globalization by countering the assumption of the increasing convergence of economic systems to the Anglo-Saxon model with the thesis of the stability of different organizational forms of capitalism. The systematic discussion of the Varieties of Capitalism initiated by Soskice and Hall in their book has led to numerous other publications by other scholars in recent years.

In addition to working with Peter Hall, Soskice often conducts research together with other renowned scientists, such as Fritz Scharpf from the Max Planck Institute for Social Studies in Cologne or Torben Iversen from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter A. Hall, David Soskice (eds.): Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  2. Cf. for example. Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.): Beyond Varieties of Capitalism. Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 and Kathleen Thelen : How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Fonts (selection)

  • Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System (2015) , (with Wendy Carlin).
  • Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) , (with Wendy Carlin).
  • Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001) , (Ed. With Peter Hall).
  • Unions, Employers and Central Banks: Wage Bargaining and Macroeconomic Regimes in an Integrating Europe (2000) , (Ed. With Torben Iversen and Jonas Pontusson).
  • Economic efficiency and institutional innovation: the German production and political regime in global competition (1997) , (Ed. With Frieder Naschold, Bob Hancké and Ulrich Jürgens).
  • Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance (1995) , (Ed. With Friedrich Buttler, Wolfgang Franz and Ronald Schettkat).
  • Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and Exchange Rates (1990) , (with Wendy Carlin).
  • Unionism, Economic Stabilization and Incomes Policies: European Experience (1983) , (Ed. With Robert Flanagan and Lloyd Ulman).

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