The development of regulatory instruments and regulatory groups during the last three decades is discussed. The increasing complexity of financial markets was answered by an extension of formal and informal approaches to their political regulation but still there are a lot of unsolved...

In the current debate on globalisation the concept of "re-embedding" plays a prominent role. The authors criticise this term - which derives from Karl Polanyi - and confront it with the approach of "regulation theory". Regulation theory offers a more precise way of analysing the actual...