A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience

by Michel Aglietta

Overview

Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the “Regulation School” of heterodox economics, it was received as the boldest book in its field since the classic studies of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and Harry Braverman.

This edition includes a substantial postface by Aglietta, which situates regulation theory in the context of twenty-first-century capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784782382
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Radical Thinkers
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Michel Aglietta is Professor of Economic Sciences at the Université de Paris X Nanterre and an advisor to the Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII).

Editorial Reviews

One of the most important and stimulating books in Marxian political economy that have appeared for many years.”
—Capital and Class

“Regulation theory’s founding statement.”
—Robert Brenner, New Left Review

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