Political Economy of Capitalisms

Robert Boyer, former director of research at the CNRS, economist at CEPREMAP and Directeur d’Etudes at EHESS, has been involved in the Régulation Theory since its beginning. In particular, he has published Contemporary Capitalism, The Embeddedness of Institutions with Rogers Hollingsworth (ed)(Cambridge University Press, 1997), Regulation Theory: The State of the Art, with Yves Saillard (ed), (Routledge 2001), The Future of Economic Growth: As New Becomes old, (Edward Elgar, 2004), Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms, with Hiroyasu Uemura, Toshio Yamada, Lei Song (ed.), (Springer, 2018).

• Introduction.- Part One: The Basics.- Chapter 2: The institutional forms on which a capitalist economy is based.- Chapter 3: From the iron laws of capitalism to the successive regulation modes.- Chapter 4: Accumulation regimes and their historical evolution.- Chapter 5: A theory of the crisis.- Part Two: Developments.- Chapter 6: The logic of action, organizations and institutions.- Chapter 7: The new institutional arrangements of contemporary capitalism.- Chapter 8: Politics and economics: the political economy of the modern world.- Chapter 9: Diversity and renewal of the different forms of capitalism.- Chapter 10: The levels of regulation – national, regional, supranational and global.- Chapter 11: From one regulation mode to another.- Conclusion: Analyzing and understanding the new shift in the history of capitalism.