Regulation Theory: The State of the Art

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
1 Introduction......Page 16
2 The origins of régulation theory......Page 28
3 Acknowledged and unacknowledged institutionalist antecedents of régulation theory......Page 36
4 Régulation and Marx......Page 43
5 A summary of régulation theory......Page 51
6 Régulation theory......Page 60
7 Money and credit in régulation......Page 72
8 The international monetary system......Page 79
9 Perspectives on the wage–labour nexus......Page 88
10 The wage–labour nexus and the employment system......Page 95
11 Diversity and rules in wage determination......Page 102
12 The welfare state and institutional compromises......Page 109
13 Forms of competition......Page 116
14 International regimes......Page 123
15 The state as relational, integrated and complex......Page 130
16 The state, public finance and régulation......Page 137
17 Régulation theory and economic policy......Page 144
18 Institutional forms and macroeconomics......Page 154
19 Short- and medium-term macroeconomic dynamics......Page 159
20 Accumulation regimes......Page 168
21 Régulation theory and technical change......Page 176
22 From cumulative growth to régulation theory......Page 183
23 Formalising regulationist dynamics and crises......Page 189
24 Globalisation, localisation and sector-based specialisation......Page 198
25 From the régulation of space to the space of régulation......Page 205
26 The local dimension of régulation......Page 212
27 Sector-based dimensions of régulation and the wage-labour nexus......Page 219
28 Sector-based régulation: the case of agriculture......Page 229
29 Regulationist political ecology or environmental economics?......Page 238
30 From canonical Fordism to different modes......Page 246
31 The United States: goodbye, Fordism!......Page 253
32 France: the end of Fordism . . . and no successor in sight......Page 262
33 The Nordic countries......Page 269
34 Japan: demythologising régulation......Page 275
35 Institutions, régulation and crisis in socialist economies......Page 282
36 Crisis and transition in the Soviet Union and Russia......Page 289
37 Regulationist approaches and accumulation in Latin America......Page 295
38 Régulation theory among theories of institutions......Page 306
39 Régulation and the American radical school......Page 314
40 Evolution and régulationary theories......Page 321
41 Conventions and régulation......Page 327
42 Is régulation theory an original theory of economic institutions?......Page 335
Glossary......Page 349
Bibliography......Page 361
Index......Page 396