This paper surveys some of the important literatures on financial, economic and social systems with an eye towards explaining the tendencies towards 'financialisation'. We focus on important strands of this literature: the French Regulation School, the US-based Social Structures of Accumulation...

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

Der Bremer Wirtschaftsprofessor (als Herausgeber: "Brauchen wir eine andere Wirtschaft?", BA 1/02) ist Mitglied der "Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik" und Vertreter einer ganzheitlichen ökonomischen Theorie, die - im Gegensatz zum Neoliberalismus - Sozialpolitik und Ökologie...