Autorenportrait
Robert Boyer is a French economist trained at Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences-Po Paris and Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He was a senior researcher at CNRS and a professor at EHESS, and is now a fellow at Institut des Amériques, Paris. He has developed an historical and comparative analysis of the transformations of capitalisms, under the label of the régulation theory. His publications include R. Boyer and Y. Saillard, Régulation Theory; the State of the Art, Routledge, 2001; R. Boyer, The Future of Economic Growth, Edward Elgar, 2004; R. Boyer, Les financiers détruiront-ils le capitalisme? Economica, 2011 R. Boyer, Economie politique des capitalismes, La Découverte, 2015. He is also an editors of Revue de la Régulation. Hiroyasu Uemura is a professor of economics at Yokohama National University in Japan. He published books and articles widely in the field of comparative institutional analysis and macroeconomic analysis from the perspective of the régulation theory. These include R. Boyer, H. Uemura and A. Isogai (eds.) Diversity and Transformation of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, 2012. Toshio Yamada is an emeritus professor at Nagoya University in Japan. He is a main contributor to the régulation theory in Japan. He has published books and articles on economic theories, Japanese capitalism, and varieties of capitalism in the world. These include R. Boyer and T. Yamada (eds.) Japanese Capitalism in Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation, Routledge, 2000, and T. Yamada, Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society: The Japanese Experience, Springer, 2018. Lei Song is a professor of comparative political economy at Peking University in China. His research interests range from the diversity of capitalisms to the business-government relations. He is working on book-length projects about the political economy of China's mode of production and policy transfer between China and the Western countries.
