Capitalist Development and Crisis Theory: Accumulation, Regulation and Spatial Restructuring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • M. Gottdiener, N. Komninos

      Pages 1-17

3. Theories of Late Capitalism and Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. An Introduction to a Theory of Crisis Theories

      • James O’Connor

      Pages 21-29

   3. Theories of Crisis: An Explanation of the 1974–82 Cycle

      • Ernest Mandel

      Pages 30-58

   4. Three Crises: The Metamorphoses of Capitalism and the Labour Movement

      • Alain Lipietz

      Pages 59-95

4. Internationalisation of Accumulation: The Crisis of Integration, Trade and Debt

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Uncoupling of the World Order: A Survey of Global Crisis Theories

      • John Bellamy Foster

      Pages 99-122

   3. Nation-State and European Integration: Structural Problems in the Process of Economic Integration within the European Community

      • Klaus Busch

      Pages 123-153

   4. The Problem of Capitalist Development: Theoretical Considerations in View of the Industrial Countries and the New Industrial Countries

      • John Milios

      Pages 154-173

   5. Industrialisation, De-industrialisation and Uneven Development: The Case of the Pacific Rim

      • Mike Berry

      Pages 174-216

   6. The Infernal Logic of the Debt Crisis

      • Ernest Mandel

      Pages 217-233

5. Crisis in the Mode of Regulation: The Restructuring of the Welfare State

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Economic Crisis and Welfare State Recommodification: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Britain

      • Desmond King

      Pages 237-260

   3. Conservative Regimes and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Cases of Great Britain and West Germany

      • Bob Jessop

      Pages 261-299

   4. Political Regulation: The Crisis of Fordism and the Transformation of the Party System in West Germany

      • Juergen Haeusler, Joachim Hirsch

      Pages 300-327

6. Capitalist Restructuring and Spatial Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329

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   2. The Change of Regional Inequality in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Hartmut Häusermann, Thomas Krämer-Badoni

      Pages 331-347

   3. From National to Local: The Janus Face of Crisis

      • Nicos Komninos

      Pages 348-364

   4. Crisis Theory and Socio-Spatial Restructuring: the US Case

      • M. Gottdiener

      Pages 365-390

This collection of essays looks at recent developments in the crisis theory of capitalist development and relates such theories directly to the current patterns of economic, political technological and cultural changes associated with societal restructuring in industrialized countries.

• desegregation
• European integration
• inequality
• integration
• transformation
• welfare

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  M. Gottdiener

• Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  Nicos Komninos

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