Aims

At the end of this course, students will be able to study the interactions between productive system, salarial society and accumulation regime. This analysis is built on the notion of institutional forms based on regulation school and the notion of complexity showing how a socio-economic system cannot be understood out of his interactions with physical and biological mechanisms.

Main themes

The course will start by a presentation of the dominant socio-economical model in Europeans industrializes countries after 1945 (based on regulation theory). It will analyze then the main elements and the new relations, which will question during 70's and 80's, the coherence between institutional forms, which have stabilized the industrial model after second war. Final, it will try to define the logic of a new model, which attempt to emerge since 90's. This definition will be based on a more systemic approach of the institutional forms.