Bruno Amable (born 15 December 1961, in France) is a French economist and Professor at the University of Geneva.
[1] Amable's research interests include political economy, comparative analysis of capitalism, and institutional economics.
[8] Relatedly, he has also highlighted the role played by institutional complementarity and hierarchy for the co-existence of diverse social systems of innovation and production.
[9][10] This perspective - that economies may grow substantially and sustainably despite large differences in institutions - is also present in Amable's research on capitalism.
[12] In another study of capitalism, Amable argues that neo-liberal politics is driven by a moral imperative of competition, leading to a replacement of the "old" social contract of collective rights to social protection and redistribution by a new one based on reciprocity between the individual and society, with important implications for e.g. the emergence of the "modern" left.