Beyond the Regulation Approach
Putting Capitalist Economies in Their Place

Presents a detailed account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, this title identifies the successes and failures of the regulation approach as an explanatory theory, and proposes various guidelines for its further development.

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 Rereading 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.