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	World-Systems Analysis	Regulation Theory Analysis
Campo	Political Economy	Political Economy
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1974	1979
Ideatore	Immanuel Wallerstein	Michel Aglietta & Robert Boyer (French Regulation School)
Tipo	Historical-structural macrosociological framework	Institutional-macroeconomic framework
Fonte seminale	Wallerstein, I. (1974). The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Academic Press. ISBN: 9780127859200	Aglietta, M. (1979). A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience. New Left Books / Verso. ISBN: 9781859842225
Alias	World-System Theory, World-Systems Theory, Wallersteinian Analysis, Capitalist World-Economy Analysis	Regulation School Analysis, Theory of Regulation, Accumulation Regime Analysis, Parisian Regulation Approach
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	World-systems analysis is a historical-structural framework, founded by Immanuel Wallerstein in The Modern World-System (1974) and codified in his 2004 introduction, that takes as its unit of analysis not the nation-state but a single, integrated capitalist world-economy that has expanded since the long sixteenth century to encompass the globe. Within this world-economy a single axial division of labor binds together a hierarchy of zones — core, semiperiphery, and periphery — through which surplus flows unequally from peripheral to core regions. States, classes, and firms are understood by their position in this structure rather than as self-contained societies, and the system is read over the longue duree, attentive to long cycles of accumulation and to the rise and decline of successive hegemonic powers.	Regulation theory analysis is an institutional-macroeconomic framework developed by the French Regulation School — above all by Michel Aglietta in A Theory of Capitalist Regulation (1979) and Robert Boyer in The Regulation School (1990) — to explain how capitalism, despite its inherent crisis tendencies, manages to reproduce itself and sustain growth for extended periods. Its central distinction is between a regime of accumulation (a stable macroeconomic pattern linking production, investment, and consumption) and a mode of regulation (the ensemble of institutional forms, norms, and habits that make that pattern cohere). When a regime of accumulation and a compatible mode of regulation lock together — as in postwar Fordism, where mass production was matched by mass consumption through a productivity-indexed wage — capitalism enjoys a long phase of stability. When the institutional forms can no longer contain the contradictions of the accumulation pattern, the framework diagnoses a structural crisis and a search for a new model, as in the crisis of Fordism and the transition toward post-Fordism.