Introduction -- Part One: The Basics -- Chapter 2: The institutional forms on which a capitalist economy is based -- Chapter 3: From the iron laws of capitalism to the successive regulation modes -- Chapter 4: Accumulation regimes and their historical evolution -- Chapter 5: A theory of the...

In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...