Diminishing Returns

In Diminishing Returns, Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson bring together a list of top contributors in the field to examine capitalist economies in times where economic growth has slowed down considerably. As economic growth is a powerful social stabilizer and contributes to make the characteristic features of capitalism, the key question motivating the volume is: What happens when growth-the main mechanism of capitalist legitimation-is harder to come by and less broadly shared? The volume analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation at the country, regional, and global level through a new theoretical framework: the Growth Model Perspective.