Steven Casper, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge
Pepper Culpepper, Harvard University
Margarita Estevez, University of Minnesota
Orfeo Fioretos, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert J. Franzese, Jr., University of Michigan
Peter A. Hall, Harvard University
Bob Hancke, London School of Economics
Torben Iversen, Harvard University
Mark Lehrer, University of Rhode Island
Isabela Mares, Stanford University
David Soskice, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Jay Tate, University of California, Berkeley
Gunther Teubner, London School of Economics
Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University
Sigurt Vitols, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Stewart Wood, Magdalen College, Oxford

"With this book Peter Hall and David Soskice are opening a new chapter in the analysis of contemporary capitalism. They have succeeded in bringing together in one compelling formulation historical - institutional and rationalist - individualist analytical perspectives. The empirical applications in Varieties of Capitalism illuminate in a profound way how both scholars and policy makers will benefit when they link macro- and micro-level analyses across the many different sectors that define contemporary capitalism in its many forms. Economists and political scientists, finally, are able to meet on common ground. This book will become a classic in the field."-- Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University.

"This invaluable contribution to the comparative capitalism literature vigorously argues against the notion of convergence so popular in the globalism debates. The authors expand our understanding of national "production systems" to see new connections and show that the differences aong them allow countries to pursue distinctly different strategies of international competition. A must read."--Peter Gourevitch, University of California, San Diego

"This book has been well worth waiting for. It demonstrates the wealth of insights that could be achieveed through Soskice's innovative research program that began to chang the agenda of Comparative POlitical Economy more than a decade ago. The volume combines a definitive restatement of the varieties of cpitialism approach with illuminative applications to the range of research areas covered by it with some fascinating theoretical extensions. Excellent!"-- F.W. Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne