Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give rise to certain economic systems by establishing consistency.

1. Introduction 2. Consistency and Viability of Economic Systems 3. Consistency and Viability of Market Capitalism 4. Great Britain. From Atlee's Postwar Consensus and Welfare State to Thatcher's Free Market Economy 5. Postwar Japan: From the Economic Miracle to the Bubble Economy 6. The European Union as an Economic System. From the European Coal and Steel Community to the Euro 7. Sweden. From 'Third Way' to Joining the European Union