Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the integral role played by culture and consensus in the trajectories of national capitalisms in Europe.
Introduction Culture in the Literatures An Alternative Framework: Gramsci's "Common Sense" The Dutch and German Varieties of Capitalism The Netherlands and Wassenaar Germany and the Alliance for Jobs Post-2001 Radicalization Conclusion: "Critical" IPE?
