Introduction - incomes policy - why now?, R.P. Dore; incomes policy in Britain - lessons from experience, William Brown; wage reforms imposed by the State - some paradoxes in French incomes policies, Robert Boyer; wage control and cost-push inflation in Sweden since 1960, Rune Aberg; wage formation and incomes policy in Denmark in the 1980s, Thomas P. Boje, Per Kongshoj Madsen; pay restraint without incomes policy - institutionalized monetarism and industrial unionism in Germany, Wolfgang Streeck; corporatism and incomes policy in Austria - experiences and perspectives, Alois Guger, Wolfgang Polt; procedures and institutions of incomes policy in Italy, Tiziano Treu; incomes policies, institutions and markets - an overview of recent developments, Colin Crouch. Appendix: souces and methods for country statistics.