Both the varieties of capitalism school (VOC) and regulation theory (RT) address the issue of how and why capitalisms differ. If VOC challenges the primacy of liberal market economies (LME) and stresses the existence of an alternative form, i.e. coordinated market economies (CME), RT starts from...

The collapse of the American financial system following the sub-prime bubble and the ensuing global financial crisis have shown the fallacy of market fundamentalism. There is a now an urgent need to return to a more balanced view: modern capitalist economies are resilient precisely because they...