September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 11m
English
Discourse and Counter-Discourse
Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart
The U.S. economy of the 1980s and 1990s is in transition. While the basic contours of the market-based economic system remain unchanged, the rules of the game that seemed to apply during the postwar period are in flux. Among political economists, a number of frameworks have been proposed to analyze economic restructuring in industrialized countries: most prominently, social structures of accumulation (SSA) and regulation theory. These analyses focus on the institutional and technical conditions underpinning, and eventually undermining, long waves of accumulation. While political economists have devoted substantial attention ...