Within "régulation" approach institutional forms are the specific expression of one or several basic social relations. They shape the short run process of economic adjustment (the "regulation" mode) as well as the growth regime. Long term transformations of capitalism are the main focus of this...

The paper investigates the links between the European Monetary Integration and the ongoing specificities and partial autonomy of industrial relations, labour markets and labour regimes at the national level. This is a follow up of John Hicks (1955) paper arguing that the Thirties experienced the...