"Michel aglietta figured for over half a century as one of the most radically original thinkers within French political economy. His groundbreaking analysis of the crisis of America’s Fordist regime in the 1970s provided the founding concepts for the rich body of work that would become known as the Regulation School.

Without ever abandoning this starting point, he went on to make a series of wide-ranging contributions on the theory of money, the role of finance, the vicissitudes of the European Monetary Union, the singularity of China’s role within contemporary world capitalism and the fate of human societies in the age of the Capitalocene. His intelligence and savoir faire allowed him to navigate between very different circles—economic theorists, French policymakers, financiers and asset managers, radical intellectuals—deploying sophisticated social theory, technical modelling and precisely informed conjunctural analysis. At the same time, he was running his late father’s construction company in the ancient Alpine city of Chambéry, in southeastern France."

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii156/articles/cedric-durand-michel-aglietta

#Aglietta #PoliticalEconomy #Economy #France #RegulationSchool #Money #Finance

Am 24. April ist Michel Aglietta gestorben. Sein Buch „Régulation et crises du capitalisme“ von 1976 war eines der prägendsten Bücher meiner Studienzeit. Die Probleme, die er auf S. 143 f. beschreibt, sind immer noch die wichtigsten Probleme mit denen wir uns heute herumschlagen: gerechte Gesundheitsversorgung, Bildungssystem, Ökologie und Mobilitätswende.

Benjamin Coriats Nachruf im Blog von @mediapart zeigt sehr gut, welche wichtigen Beiträge #Aglietta zur wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Diskussion der letzten 50 Jahr geleistet, zu #Fordismus, #Finanzmarkt und #Kapitalozän.
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/010525/theoricien-de-la-regulation-et-critique-du-capitalisme-financier-michel-aglietta-est-mort