Beyond the regulation approach : putting capitalist economies in their place This book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples it identifies the successes and failures of the regulation approach as an explanatory theory and proposes new guidelines for its further development pt. 1. On the regulation approach pt. 2. Applications and critical appreciations of the RA pt. 3. Developing the regulation approach Moving beyond the regulation approach