"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to...

Biographical note: DuménilGérard: Gérard Duménil is a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.LévyDominique: Dominique Lévy is a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.