Coordinators: Pascal Petit (pascal.petit@ens.fr) and Charlie Dannreuther (c.dannreuther@leeds.ac.uk)
Theme of the research area
The research area tries to discuss and develop institutional analyses of the modes of development of contemporary economies. Approaches of the Regulation school are given special attention in that respect. The debates within the Regulation theory concerning the characterisation of the contemporary growth regime and the diversity of national trajectories are reviewed, expanded and confronted with alternative approaches. Critics and developments in such macroeconomics of institutions are welcomed. Discussions on the relevance for policy debates and design of the various works under view are also of central interest for the group.
The activities
The research area organises a panel at the yearly EAEPE conference, starting at the Sienna conference in 2001. It plans to organise a spring seminar that would help to develop a) an ongoing internal debate on the web, with some diffusion of information on issues and works relevant with the theme of the research area and b) to prepare in a collective way the panel for the November EAEPE conference.
Communication
At this stage communication among those interested by the area are going through email exchanges with the coordinators. A brief resume of the spring seminar will be circulated. The quarterly newsletter "La Lettre de la Regulation", now being translated into English as "Issues in Regulation Theory" and available on the web will help to diffuse information on the activities of the research area.
The Annual Conference
The research area organises a panel and takes opportunity of this gathering to held informal discussion meetings, if only to set up the agenda of the spring seminar. Information is circulated on various forthcoming events of interest for the research area.