The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy - Paperback

by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont (Editor), Jacques-Henri Coste (Editor), Jean-Baptiste Velut (Editor)

Despite the reversal of America's fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist paradigm, it did not fundamentally challenge aca

Author Biography

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont is an Associate Professor at the University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She joined CERVEPAS, Research Center of Anglo-Saxon Economies, in 2011, as a specialist of the United States' soft power through cultural industries such as the book industry.

Jean-Baptiste Velut is Assistant Professor in American Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Paris. He holds a PhD in North American Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Paris and in political science from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He wrote a dissertation entitled "Free or Fair Trade? The Battle for the Rules of American Trade Policy from NAFTA to CAFTA" (2009, Sorbonne Nouvelle University/CUNY) and has published several articles on trade policy, globalization debates and contemporary progressive movements in the United States.

Jacques-Henri Coste is an Associate Professor of American studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 University and a member of the CERVEPAS/CREW research center on Anglo-Saxon economies. He is director of the B.A. program in Foreign Languages and International Business and also lectures at the Lyon Institut des Etudes Politiques on the evolutions of the U.S. economic model. He serves on the editorial board of Entreprendre and Innover and other academic journals. He has recently co-organized two international conferences on the "Representations of Capitalism in the English-speaking World".