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"(...) Seeing that the concept of command economy failed as an alternative to the concept of market economy the last remaining one has come into a sharper scientific focus. Some strong distinctions of institutional shape of market economies in countries like Germany and the USA has been made out soon, as described by Gøsta Esping-Andersen in "The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism? (Esping-Andersen 1990), Guliano Bonoli in "Classyfying Welfare States: A Two-dimension Approach? (Bonoli 1997), Torben Iversen in "Contested Economic Institutions. The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies" (Iversen 1999) Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck in "Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity? (Crouch/Streeck 1997), Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow in "Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA? (Ebbinghaus/Manow 2001) et al. However, the publication of the "Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage? edited by Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (Hall/Soskice 2001) with the contributions of other authors seems to have touched the core of the discussion at the best and has given a fresh impetus into the science of comparative political economy by devising the varieties of capitalism approach. (...)"