Industrial Societies after the Stagnation of the 1970s - Taking Stock from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Authors -- Introductory Essay: The Lessons of a Decade -- A. Market Structure and Employment Trends -- Employment and Productivity in Europe - What are the Perspectives? -- Cooperative Behavior among Economic Agents within the Production System -- On the Predictability of Labor-Force Participation and Employment -- B. Macroeconomic Policy Making - An Institutional Perspective -- Antagonism and Cooperation in Four Countries: Economic Policies and Performance -- The Political Management of Mixed Economies: Political Aspects of Macroeconomic Performance in OECD Nations (1960-1984) -- C. Value Change and the Economic Experience of Mass Publics -- Value Changes in Western Societies - The Last Thirty Years -- Economic Culture in Post-Industrial Society: Orientations Toward Growth, Technology and Work -- Popular Bases of Conflict and Solidarity - A Review of the Evidence from a Decade Économie Problématique -- Time Use and Information Technology: Recent and Future Developments of Private Households -- D. Changing Sources of Sustenance -- Changing Patterns of Small Entrepreneurship -- Forms of Work and the Role of Self-Provisioning -- A Comparison of the Resource Potential of Different Social Networks -- Concluding Essay -- Tanks and Bicycles - Two Scenarios for Europe -- Backmatter