This book provides a political history of German capitalism, from the late 19th century to current events.

Philip Manow is professor for Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bremen. His publications include In the King's Shadow (Polity, 2010) and Welfare Democracies and Party Politics (edited with Bruno Palier and Hanna Schwander, OUP, 2018).

• 1: The Political Construction of a Coordinated Political Economy


• 2: Social Insurance and the Origins of the German Political Economy


• 3: Modell Deutschland as an Interdenominational Compromise


• 4: Work and Welfare as Strategic Complements in Germany's Postwar Economic Order


• 5: Pathological Adjustment, Structural Change and the Welfare State: Modell Deutschland after the Golden Age


• 6: International Complementarities of National Capitalism


• 7: Conclusion