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...

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...