Contents
List of figures ix List of tables x List of contributors xi List of abbreviations xiv
1 Introduction 1 ROBERT BOYER
PART I A review of régulation theory 11
2 The origins of régulation theory 13 ROBERT BOYER
3 Acknowledged and unacknowledged institutionalist antecedents of régulation theory 21 MAURICE BASLE
4 Régulation and Marx 28 HENRI NADEL
5 A summary of régulation theory 36 ROBERT BOYER AND YVES SAILLARD
6 Régulation theory: stasis or confirmation of a research programme? 45 ROBERT BOYER AND YVES SAILLARD
PART II The five institutional forms revisited 55
7 Money and credit in régulation theory 57 ROBERT GUTTMANN
8 The international monetary system 64 MICHEL AGLIETTA
9 Perspectives on the wage–labour nexus 73 ROBERT BOYER
10 The wage–labour nexus and the employment system 80 HUGUES BERTRAND
11 Diversity and rules in wage determination 87 BENEDICTE REYNAUD
12 The welfare state and institutional compromises: from origins to contemporary crisis 94 CHRISTINE ANDRE
13 Forms of competition 101 MICHEL HOLLARD
14 International regimes 108 JEAN-FRANÇOIS VIDAL
15 The state as relational, integrated and complex: l’état relationnel intégré complexe (ERIC) 115 ROBERT DELORME
16 The state, public finance and régulation 122 BRUNO THERET
17 Régulation theory and economic policy 129 FREDERIC LORDON
PART III Macroeconomic dynamics and structural change 137
18 Institutional forms and macroeconomics 139 BERNARD BILLAUDOT
19 Short- and medium-term macroeconomic dynamics 144 BERNARD BILLAUDOT
20 Accumulation regimes 153 MICHEL JUILLARD
21 Régulation theory and technical change 161 BRUNO AMABLE
22 From cumulative growth to régulation theory 168 PASCAL PETIT
23 Formalising regulationist dynamics and crises 174

PART IV New spaces of régulation 181
24 Globalisation, localisation and sector-based specialisation: what is the future of national régulation? 183 YVES SAILLARD
25 From the régulation of space to the space of régulation 190 GEORGES BENKO AND ALAIN LIPIETZ
26 The local dimension of régulation 197 JEAN-PIERRE GILLY AND BERNARD PECQUEUR
27 Sector-based dimensions of régulation and the wage–labour nexus 204 CHRISTIAN DU TERTRE
28 Sector-based régulation: the case of agriculture 214 GILLES ALLAIRE AND AMEDEE MOLLARD
29 Regulationist political ecology or environmental economics? 223 ALAIN LIPIETZ
PART V National trajectories 229
30 From canonical Fordism to different modes of development 231 ROBERT BOYER
31 The United States: goodbye, Fordism! 238 ROBERT BOYER AND MICHEL JUILLARD
32 France: the end of Fordism . . . and no successor in sight 247 BENJAMIN CORIAT
33 The Nordic countries: a régulation perspective on small countries 254 LARS MJØSET
34 Japan: demythologising régulation 260 YASUO INOUE AND TOSHIO YAMADA
35 Institutions, régulation and crisis in socialist economies 267 BERNARD CHAVANCE
36 Crisis and transition in the Soviet Union and Russia 274 JACQUES SAPIR

37 Regulationist approaches and accumulation in Latin America 280 JAIME ABOITES, LUIS MIOTTI AND CARLOS QUENAN
PART VI Future prospects for régulation theory 289
38 Régulation theory among theories of institutions 291 MARIE-CLAIRE VILLEVAL
39 Régulation and the American radical school 299 ALLAN COBAN
40 Evolution and régulationary theories: similarities and differences 306 BENJAMIN CORIAT AND GIOVANNI DOSI
41 Conventions and régulation 312 OLIVIER FAVEREAU
42 Is régulation theory an original theory of economic institutions? 320 ROBERT BOYER
Glossary 334 Bibliography 346 Index 381