The Globalizing Learning Economy.(Book Review)

The Globalizing Learning Economy. Daniel Archibugi and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 307 pp. $60.00.

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Peter Hall and David Soskice, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 400 pp. $32.50.

These two books represent two dramatically different ways to understand why countries differ and how these differences matter to economic performance. They share a theoretical feature important to organizational studies, namely, both claim that the macro coun