David Soskice (economist)

David Soskice is a British economist. Currently, he is Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Life

Soskice was born as son of the British Home Secretary Frank Soskice in London. He shares his first name with his grandfather, the Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice, who had fled to England.

Soskice studied Political science, Philosophy and Economics at Nuffield and Trinity College of the University of Oxford.

Between 1967 and 1990, he worked as Lecturer in Economics at University College, Oxford. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall he went to the newly founded Berlin Social Science Research Center, where he worked as Research professor and director of the working group 'Employment and Economic change'. After his retirement in 2007, he returned to Nuffield as Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow.

Soskice was Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell and, every spring semester at Duke University. Between 2004 and 2007, he was appointed Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He counselled the OECD, the British Labour Party und the governments of United Kingdom, France, and Germany in questions of employment and education.

Research

Within his research area, Political Economy, Soskice's focusses on the study of labor markets, systems of Vocational education and production regimes.

The 2001 published book Varieties of Capitalism, written by Soskice and the Harvard professor Peter A. Hall^[1] enjoyed large popularity both in Political Economy (due to its macroeconomic implications) and Business (because of its analytical focus on the organizational structure of the individual firm). The book typecasts and analyzes two distinct types of capitalist economies: the liberal and coordinated market economies.

Further reading

• 2006: Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (with Wendy Carlin)
• 2001: Varieties of Capitalism: the Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (ed. with Peter A. Hall).
• 2000: Unions, Employers and Central Banks: Wage Bargaining and Macroeconomic Regimes in an Integrating Europe (ed. with Torben Iversen, and Jonas Pontusson).
• 1995: Institutional Frameworks and Labour Market Performance (ed. with Friedrich Buttler, Wolfgang Franz, and Ronald Schettkat).
• 1990: Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and Exchange Rates (with Wendy Carlin).
• 1983: Unionism, Economic Stabilisation and Incomes Policies: European Experience, (ed. with Robert Flanagan and Lloyd Ulman).

Sources

1. ^ Peter A. Hall, David Soskice (eds.): Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

External links

• Homepage at Duke University
• CV with complete list of publications

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Name	Soskice, David
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Short description	British Economist
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Place of birth	London, United Kingdom
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