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The Limits of Regulation: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Development
Author(s): Stavros Mavroudeas (Author)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857938630
- ISBN-13: 9780857938633
Book Description
This unique and original book offers a critical survey of the regulation approach, an influential theoretical school born in the 1970s and belonging to the neo-Marxist and radical political economy traditions.
The author’s persuasive argument is that regulation, in order to explain capitalist development, resorts to historicism and institutionalism and thereby adopts a ‘middle-range’ methodology. He contends that both its theoretical and methodological perspectives are currently unfit for this purpose.
This novel critique of regulation will prove a challenging and stimulating read for academics, researchers and graduate students with an interest in heterodox economics, the history of economic thought, political economy, regional development and labor process theory.
Editorial Reviews
Review
’Whilst the regulation approach has gone beyond its peak of influence and has been diluted of much of its radical content, this outstanding critical appreciation of its strengths and weaknesses will prove an invaluable point of reference for all those engaged in the political economy of the national within the global economy.’
– Ben Fine, University of London, UK
– Ben Fine, University of London, UK
About the Author
Stavros Mavroudeas, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University, Greece
