As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to...

There is much controversy surrounding something what is conventionally called “financial innovation”. Yet, it should be in any case seen as a relatively substantial element in the functioning of modern economies. However, its general impact should be assessed from quite different...

List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation...

Financial innovations should be regarded a s a substantial element in the functioning of modern economies and financial sectors. However, their general impact is to be assessed from the present perspective, essentially depending on their particular behaviour and the role they play in the...

Die im Titel aufgeführten Theorie- und Analyseraster haben seit den 1980er Jahren die Komparative und Internationale Politische Ökonomie maßgeblich geprägt. Gleichwohl sind die jeweiligen Stärken und Schwächen der verschiedenen Ansätze bislang kaum systematisch vergleichend diskutiert...

The structural changes that occurred in the last 30 years have substantially modified the capitalistic organization of society, both at national and international level. A new regime of accumulation devoid of a stable mode of regulation and centred on financial valorisation of new socio-economic...

Many heterodox strands of thought share both a concern with the study of different phases or growth regimes in the history of capitalism and the use of formal short-run models as an analytical tool. This text suggests that: (1) this strategy is potentially misleading; (2) that the stock-flow...

Die Rekonfiguration und Neudimensionierung von Formen territorialer Organisationen wie Städte und Staaten stellen ein integrales Element der gegenwärtigen Globalisierungsrunde dar. Die territoriale Organisation zeitgenössischer städtischer Räume und staatlicher Institutionen muss...

The production of capital -- Transformations in the labour process -- The transformations of the wage-earners' conditions of life -- The concentration and centralization of capital -- General rate of profit and competition among capitals -- Monetary system, credit and crises

This paper aims at proposing a first theoretical framework for studying the basic income sustainability. We consider the basic income not only as a tool of a policy to improve living standards and social well-being but, mostly, as the essential requisite to introduce a new stable compromise...

This paper aims at proposing a first theoretical framework for studying the basic income sustainability. We consider the basic income not only as a tool of a policy to improve living standards and social well-being but, mostly, as the essential requisite to introduce a new stable compromise...