Regulation theory : the state of the art / edited by Robert Boyer and Yves Saillard ; translated by Carolyn Shread.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyer, Robert.

Saillard, Yves.

Standardized Title:

Theorie de la regulation. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy.

Capitalism.

Equilibrium (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

[Updated ed.].

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Boyer and Yves Sailard's Theorie de la Regulation introduces the Francophone public to one of the most important new currents in social science of the past half-century. This long-awaited translation will help broaden its impact still further.Regulation Theory focuses on the structural features of a given model and has helped enliven the examination of core economic concepts.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The origins of régulation theory; 3 Acknowledged and unacknowledged institutionalist antecedents of régulation theory; 4 Régulation and Marx; 5 A summary of régulation theory; 6 Régulation theory; 7 Money and credit in régulation; 8 The international monetary system; 9 Perspectives on the wage-labour nexus; 10 The wage-labour nexus and the employment system; 11 Diversity and rules in wage determination; 12 The welfare state and institutional compromises; 13 Forms of competition; 14 International regimes

15 The state as relational, integrated and complex16 The state, public finance and régulation; 17 Régulation theory and economic policy; 18 Institutional forms and macroeconomics; 19 Short- and medium-term macroeconomic dynamics; 20 Accumulation regimes; 21 Régulation theory and technical change; 22 From cumulative growth to régulation theory; 23 Formalising regulationist dynamics and crises; 24 Globalisation, localisation and sector-based specialisation; 25 From the régulation of space to the space of régulation; 26 The local dimension of régulation

27 Sector-based dimensions of régulation and the wage-labour nexus28 Sector-based régulation: the case of agriculture; 29 Regulationist political ecology or environmental economics?; 30 From canonical Fordism to different modes; 31 The United States: goodbye, Fordism!; 32 France: the end of Fordism . . . and no successor in sight; 33 The Nordic countries; 34 Japan: demythologising régulation; 35 Institutions, régulation and crisis in socialist economies; 36 Crisis and transition in the Soviet Union and Russia; 37 Regulationist approaches and accumulation in Latin America

38 Régulation theory among theories of institutions39 Régulation and the American radical school; 40 Evolution and régulationary theories; 41 Conventions and régulation; 42 Is régulation theory an original theory of economic institutions?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781134559961

1134559968

9781134559978

1134559976

9781280148583

1280148586

9780203996775

0203996771

OCLC:

275291102