This article starts from the proposition that it is a good thing to expose economics students to more than one paradigm or tradition in economics. Further it argues that a pluralist approach can be introduced right from the start in university-level teaching. The article discusses the problems...

This article summarizes developments within the SSA perspective since the publication of Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis in 1994. The article first overviews the literature produced since 1994, defining the main lines of research, starting with David...

This essay examines the intellectual antecedents of David Gordon's social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach. It argues that Gordon's systematic treatment of long periods of growth and stagnation is the culmination of a long Marxist tradition which began early in the twentieth century with...

Spatial restructuring of work across borders is an ongoing process that relies on heterogeneity of place. Strategic differentiation is key, as the ability of corporations to implement differences in the organisation of work and work practices facilitates the weakening of local labour forces....