Regulation Theory or Accounting

Regulation Theory: State of the Art

Author: Boyer Robert

Robert Boyer and Yves Sailard's Theorie de la Regulation introduced 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.

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Boyer (economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France) and Saillard (economics, U. of Grenoble, France) present 42 papers which trace the theoretical and empirical developments of French gulation/> theory, which analyzes the "way in which transformations of social relations create new economic and non- economic forms, organized in structures that reproduce a determining structure, the mode of production." Its proponents consider the theory to be an antidote to the methodological individualism of so-called pure economics and its false axioms of rationality, equilibrium, and the primacy of independent markets in agent interactions. Translated from the 1995 work orie de la r<'e>gulation: l'<'e>tat des savoirs/>. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	A review of regulation theory	11
2	The origins of regulation theory	13
3	Acknowledged and unacknowledged institutionalist antecedents of regulation theory	21
4	Regulation and Marx	28
5	A summary of regulation theory	36
6	Regulation theory: stasis or confirmation of a research programme?	45
Pt. II	The five institutional forms revisited	55
7	Money and credit in regulation theory	57
8	The international monetary system	64
9	Perspectives on the wage-labour nexus	73
10	The wage-labour nexus and the employment system	80
11	Diversity and rules in wage determination	87
12	The welfare state and institutional compromises: from origins to contemporary crisis	94
13	Forms of competition	101
14	International regimes	108
15	The state as relational, integrated and complex: l'etat relationnel integre complexe (ERIC)	115
16	The state, public finance and regulation	122
17	Regulation theory and economic policy	129
Pt. III	Macroeconomic dynamics and structural change	137
18	Institutional forms and macroeconomics	139
19	Short- and medium-term macroeconomic dynamics	144
20	Accumulation regimes	153
21	Regulation theory and technical change	161
22	From cumulative growth to regulation theory	168
23	Formalising regulationist dynamics and crises	174
Pt. IV	New spaces of regulation	181
24	Globalisation, localisation and sector-based specialisation: what is the future of national regulation?	183
25	From the regulation of space to the space of regulation	190
26	The local dimension of regulation	197
27	Sector-based dimensions of regulation and the wage-labour nexus	204
28	Sector-based regulation: the case of agriculture	214
29	Regulationist political ecology or environmental economics?	223
Pt. V	National trajectories	229
30	From canonical Fordism to different modes of development	231
31	The United States: goodbye, Fordism!	238
32	France: the end of Fordism ... and no successor in sight	247
33	The Nordic countries: a regulation perspective on small countries	254
34	Japan: demythologising regulation	260
35	Institutions, regulation and crisis in socialist economies	267
36	Crisis and transition in the Soviet Union and Russia	274
37	Regulationist approaches and accumulation in Latin America	280
Pt. VI	Future prospects for regulation theory	289
38	Regulation theory among theories of institutions	291
39	Regulation and the American radical school	299
40	Evolution and regulationary theories: similarities and differences	306
41	Conventions and regulation	312
42	Is regulation theory an original theory of economic institutions?	320
	Glossary	334
	Bibliography	346
	Index	381

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