Handbook on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory

This pioneering Handbook offers a state-of-the-art exploration of the social structure of accumulation theory, a leading theory of stages of capitalism, expertly summarising its development to date. It breaks new ground in several areas, including econometric evidence for the theory and developing institutional analyses of technology and the environment. Expert international contributors offer an in-depth treatment of the theory of social structures of accumulation, extending this analysis to areas of the world where the application of the theory has previously been underexplored such as Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and India. It offers a detailed discussion of global neoliberalism, and many of the important individual institutions constituting social structures of accumulation, including in the areas of criminal justice, urban policy, technology, and corporate management. Thought-provoking and insightful, the new ground covered in this Handbook will be a key resource for heterodox economists who are interested in social structures of accumulation, long waves, and stages of capitalism. The comprehensive background analysis on current issues will also be of interest to sociologists,political scientists, and historians.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to Handbook on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory 1 Terrence McDonough, Cian McMahon and David M. Kotz PART I THEORY AND EMPIRICS THEORY 2 Social Structure of Accumulation theory 15 Terrence McDonough ECONOMETRICS 3 Econometric analysis of long swings: the relevance of nonperiodic methods 34 Jonathan Goldstein PART II REGIONS UNITED STATES 4 A comprehensive approach to SSA analysis: an oscillating pattern of crisis in US economic history 62 Daniel E. Saros WESTERN EUROPE 5 Social Structure of Accumulation theory and Europe 80 Terrence McDonough and Pedro Rey-Araujo EASTERN EUROPE 6 From one crisis to the next: social structures of accumulation and capitalist development in Eastern Europe 101 Besnik Pula LATIN AMERICA 7 Globalization without neoliberalism? Social structures of accumulation and the Latin American Pink Tide 117 David B. Feldman MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 8 Social structures of accumulation in the Middle East and North Africa 135 Fred H. Lawson INDIA 9 India’s informal capitalism: social structures of accumulation, forms of exploitation and social reproduction in the Sweatshop Regime 152 Alessandra Mezzadri PART III GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM 10 Global neoliberalism and its crisis 170 David M. Kotz NEOLIBERALISM 11 Neoliberalism: theory, contradictions and future developments 190 Alessandro Bonanno GLOBALIZATION 12 Crisis in the era of neoliberal globalization: a global capitalism perspective 207 Shawn Nichols FINANCIALIZATION 13 Financialization, a key contradiction of the neoliberal social structure of accumulation 224 William K. Tabb LABOR RELATIONS 14 Social structures of accumulation and labor in the United States since World War II 243 Samuel Rosenberg PART IV OTHER KEY INSTITUTIONS CRIMINOLOGY 15 Criminology and Social Structure of Accumulation theory: a critical intersection 263 Susan M. Carlson and Raymond J. Michalowski WELFARE STATE 16 Social structures of accumulation and the US welfare state 281 Mimi Abramovitz URBAN POLICY 17 Social structures of accumulation, cities and urban policy 303 Benno Engels CORPORATIONS AND MANAGEMENT 18 Management, corporate form and the financial social structure of accumulation 327 Harland Prechel TECHNOLOGY 19 Technology as a social institution in SSA theory 344 Mark Dean ENVIRONMENT 20 Social Structure of Accumulation and sustainability: bringing social‒ ecological relations in 368 Cian McMahon and Terrence McDonough Index

About the Author :
Edited by Terrence McDonough, Emeritus Professor of Economics, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland and Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia, Cian McMahon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Centre for Cooperative Management, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University Halifax, Canada and David M. Kotz, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US and Distinguished Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Review :
‘Numerous commentators have been asking whether capitalism is entering a new phase, defined by the decline of neoliberalism and its replacement by authoritarian or social democratic institutions. The Social Structure of Accumulation literature, which has long addressed the question of institutional change under capitalism, provides a rigorous academic underpinning for such a debate. This new collection provides numerous fresh perspectives on the SSA approach from a variety of academic disciplines. It will be very useful for scholars who are new to the SSA literature and to those who want to be updated.’