Description
This book highlights the role of profiteers in political efforts to expand market-based competition. Political struggles surrounding the gradual marketization of corporate control in Britain, Germany and France from the 1860s provide empirical illustration. Helen Callaghan is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. She obtained her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2006 and enjoyed a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute before joining the MPIfG in 2008. Her research focuses on the politics of corporate governance in advanced industrialized economies. She has published peer reviewed articles in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. 1 Introduction; 2 The Political Dynamics of Marketizing Corporate Control; 3 Britain; 4 Germany; 5 France; 6 Conclusion
