《超常增长:1979-2049年的中国经济》以1979-2049年的中国经济为研究对象，围绕基于超常投资力与超常购买力之上的超常增长，对中国过去30多年经济高增长与低波动进行了系统分析，认为中国经济超常增长的根本原因在于通过改革开放与自主创新，形成了独具特色的三维市场体制；《超常增长:1979-2049年的中国经济》还研究预测了中国至21世纪中叶的经济高速增长趋势，提出了深化体制改革、打造国家发展战略基金、建立国家理财体系等建议和构想。 作为国内第一部系统分析至2049年中国经济长期发展前景的原创著作，《超常增长:1979-2049年的中国经济》对于解答中国发展的种种疑问，进一步推动改革发展，坚定对中国特色社会主义的道路自信、理论自信、制度自信，具有重要参考价值。

Kathleen Thelen explains the historical origins of important cross-national differences in four countries (Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan), and also provides a theory of institutional change over time. The latter is considered a frontier issue in institutionalist analysis, of which there are several varieties emerging from economics, political science, and sociology. Thelen's study contributes to the literature on the political economy of the developed democracies that focuses on different institutional arrangements defining distinctive models of capitalism.

Education, skill formation, and training continue to be important areas of consideration for both public policy and research. This book examines the particular types of vocational training known as collective skill formation systems, whereby the training (often firm-based apprenticeships) is collectively organized by businesses and unions with state support and cooperation in execution, finance, and monitoring. With contributions from leading academics, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the varying historical origins of, and recent developments in, vocational training systems, offering in-depth studies on coordinated market economies, namely Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Denmark. It also contains comparative chapters that analyse how these countries react to common challenges such as deindustrialization, labour market stratification, academic drift, gender inequalities, and Europeanization. Whereas previous research has focused on the differences between various kinds of skill regimes, this book focuses on explaining institutional variety within the group of collective skill formation systems. The development of skill formation systems is regarded as a dynamic political process, dependent on the outcome of various political struggles regarding such matters as institutional design and transformations during critical junctures in historical development.

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line -- developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts -- first created and then served an expanding mass market. It inspired fiction, paintings, photographs, comedy, cafeteria layouts, and cookie-cutter suburban housing. It also transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives. During World War II and the Cold War, it was often seen as a bastion of liberty and capitalism. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of "lean manufacturing"; American industry reluctantly adopted this new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.

Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.

本书回顾了新中国成立至1976年政治经济发展的历史，重点探讨了中国现代化发展的宏观背景、初始起点、发展条件和各类动因；从政治与经济两条主线闸述了建国初期到向社会主义转变、“大跃进”到经济重建以及“文化大革命”时期的历史过干旱和历史联系，并对这段时期作了客观和历史的分析。 本书充分肯定了毛泽东和他所领导的中国共产党人开创和探索的中国特色礼会主义现代化建设道路（即“中国之路”）的历史功绩，也总结了其经验和教训。 作为近年来国情研究的主要成果之一，作者以翔实的资料和深入的研究引导广大读者历史地理解和重温“中国之路”的发腱轨迹、发展逻辑和发展特点。 本书系作者为清华大学研究生和公共管理（MPA）研究生讲授《社会主义理论与实践》（必修课）的参考教材，既是作者研究中国国情的重要成果，也是教书授课实践的心得体会。