In this two-volume set, the editors present seminal articles by leading SSA scholars describing the development of SSA Theory and its wider application. The first volume offers an introduction to SSA theory and covers the historical context, the founding documents of the approach, subsequent...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction to Handbook on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory -- PART I THEORY AND EMPIRICS -- Theory -- 2. Social structure of accumulation theory -- Econometrics -- 3. Econometric analysis of long swings: the relevance of...

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...