From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Apr 24 2006 - 11:36:08 EDT
A new book from Edward Elgar. / In solidarity, Jerry
Beyond The Regulation Approach
Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place
by
Bob Jessop, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies and
Professor of Sociology and Ngai-Ling Sum, Department of
Politics, Lancaster University, UK
April 2006 496 pp Hardback 1 84542 037 3
ISBN13 978 1 84542 037 6
This book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation
approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a
theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, it identifies
the successes and failures of the regulation approach as an explanatory
theory, and proposes new guidelines for its further development.
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Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I: On the Regulation Approach
1. Early Regulation Approaches in Retrospect and Prospect
2. Fordism and Post-Fordism
3. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Capitalist State
Part II: Applications and Critical Appreciations of the RA
4. Neo-Conservative Regimes and the Transition to Post-Fordism
5. A Regulationist Re-reading of East Asian Newly Industrializing
Economies: From Peripheral Fordism to Exportism
6. A Regulationist Perspective on the Asian ‘Crisis’ and After
Part III: Developing the Regulation Approach
7. Regenerating the Regulation Approach
8. Bringing Governance into Capitalist Regulation
9. Rescaling Regulation and Governance in a Global Age Part
IV: Moving Beyond the Regulation Approach
10. Critical Realism and the Regulation Approach: A Dialogue
11. Rethinking Periodization After Fordism
12. Gramsci as a Proto- and Post-Regulation Theorist Conclusion: Putting
Capitalist Economies in their Place
Bibliography
Index
View the author's website at
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staffjessopjessop.htm>
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