When Economic Crises Endure

This work represents the French Regulation School approach to the study of economics. Regulationists focus on the long-term evolution of capitalist economies with a strong emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Methodologically, their approach is flexible and innovative. I: Growth and Regulation; One: From Extensive to Intensive Accumulation; Two: Wage Formation and Consumption Standard; Three: Price, Profit, and Accumulation; Four: International Economic Relations and the Internal Dynamic; II: Structural Crises: Why and How?; Five: Origins of the Interwar Crisis; Six: The Crisis of Intensive Accumulation; Seven: The 1930s: Fascism or Fordism?; Eight: The 1970s: The End of Growth and the Persistence of Regulation Modes; Nine: From the 1970s to the 1980s: Contrasting Country Models; Ten: The Accumulation Regime of the 2000s, An Open Choice; Conclusion