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Now that the ´Varieties of Capitalism´ hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are searching for new directions. This book presents the first sustained dialogue between institutionalist ´post-VoC´ and more critical, global approaches, thus contributing to the development of a new generation of Comparative Capitalisms scholarship.

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Introduction: Comparative Capitalisms Research and the Emergence of Critical, Global Perspectives; Matthias Ebenau, Ian Bruff and Christian May PART I: COMPARING CAPITALISMS IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Varieties of Capitalism and ´the Great Moderation´; David Coates 2. Fault and Fracture? The Impact of New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research on the Wider Field; Ian Bruff, Matthias Ebenau and Christian May 3. Directions and Debates in the Globalization of Comparative Capitalisms Research; Matthias Ebenau PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DEBATES 4. Comparative Capitalisms and/or Variegated Capitalism; Bob Jessop 5. Critical Institutionalism in Comparative Capitalisms Research: Conceptual Considerations and Research Programme; Christian May and Andreas Nolke 6. Gender Inequalities in the Crisis of Capitalism: Spain and France Compared; Julia Lux and Stefanie Wohl 7. Social Structures of Accumulation: A Marxist Comparison of Capitalisms?; Terrence McDonough 8. Entangled Modernity and the Study of Variegated Capitalism: Some Suggestions for a Postcolonial Research Agenda; Ingrid Wehr PART III: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND DEBATES 9. Putting Comparative Capitalisms Research in its Place: Varieties of Capitalism in Transition Economies; Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant 10. State-Business-Labour Relations and Patterns of Development in Latin America; Flavio Gaitan and Renato Boschi 11. All Varieties are Equal...Contributions from Dependency Approaches to Critical Comparative Capitalisms Research; Lucia Suau Arinci, Nadia Pessina and Matthias Ebenau 12. Decolonizing the Study of Capitalist Diversity: Epistemic Disruption and the Varied Geographies of Coloniality; Lisa Tilley Conclusion: Towards a Critical, Global Comparative Political Economy; Christian May, Matthias Ebenau and Ian Bruff

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´Charting new directions, developing new perspectives, and bringing new energy to the field of comparative capitalisms research, this innovative collection presents a radical challenge to intellectual path dependency. In the best traditions of critical and heterodox scholarship, it opens up and illuminates the horizon not only with new analytical formulations but with new political-economic imaginaries as well.´ Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Canada

´With its invaluable and up-to-date effort to change the way we do research on capitalism, this edited collection is a breath of fresh air and a much needed contribution to a long-standing debate a highly stimulating and timely book which opens up a research agenda that is both pertinent and necessary.´ Ramiro Fernández, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina

´New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research sets a refreshing, bold agenda for critical research into capitalist diversity. By turns confrontational, reflective, and forward-thinking, it should be read by everyone now grappling with understanding the evolving nature of capitalism in the contemporary world.´ Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada

´New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research deserves praise by bringing the dynamic reality of a conflictual, national borders transcending capitalism back into the research on the Varieties of Capitalism. This splendid co-edited volume with its critical and global perspective is destined to become a point of reference in the search for new directions in comparative capitalisms research.´ - Christoph Scherrer, Universität Kassel, Germany

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