Jessop, Bob (2014) Capitalist diversity and variety : variegation, the world market, compossibility and ecological dominance. Capital and Class, 38 (1). pp. 43-56. ISSN 0309-8168
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Abstract
This article critiques institutionalist literature on varieties of capitalism and the more régulationist comparative capitalism approach. It elaborates the alternative concept of variegated capitalism and suggests that this can be studied fruitfully through a synthesis of materialist form analysis and historical institutionalism within a world-market perspective, highlights the role of institutional and spatio-temporal fixes that produce temporary, partial, and unstable zones of stability (and corresponding zones of instability) within the limits of the crisis-prone capital relation, and illustrates this from the crisis of crisis-management in the Eurozone crisis.