This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand …, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the …

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition. It … endorses the employment of multiple perspectives, including critical political economy, institutionalist systems of capitalism …, structuralist-dependency scholarship and world-systems theory. The contributors deal with the theory of economic patriotism in a …