Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the integral role played by culture and consensus in the trajectories of national capitalisms in Europe.

Autorentext
IAN BRUFF is Research Officer in the Department of Research and Knowledge Transfer at Edge Hill University, UK. Prior to this he taught and researched at several UK universities and also Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the Netherlands, the globalization debate, and neo-Gramscian theory.

Inhalt
Introduction Culture in the Literatures An Alternative Framework: Gramsci's "Common Sense" The Dutch and German Varieties of Capitalism The Netherlands and Wassenaar Germany and the Alliance for Jobs Post-2001 Radicalization Conclusion: "Critical" IPE?