French economist whose A Theory of Capitalist Regulation (1976) founded the regulation school
Born in Chambéry in Savoy to Italian immigrant parents, Aglietta studied at the École polytechnique and the ENSAE. He joined the national statistics institute INSEE in 1964 and studied at Harvard in 1970–72 with Paul Sweezy among others. His doctoral thesis on the long-term management of the conflict between labour and capital in American capitalism became Régulation et crises du capitalisme (1976; A Theory of Capitalist Regulation), which with the work of Robert Boyer laid the ground for the regulation school. He then turned to international money and financial markets, writing La violence de la monnaie (1982) with André Orléan. He taught at Paris Nanterre University from 1982 and died in Paris in 2025.
Activities and affiliations
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1964–1976
France state institutionsAdministrateur, INSEE
Economy, finance and planning -
1976–1982
France state institutionsProfessor, University of Picardy (Amiens)
Scholarship and theory -
1982–
France state institutionsProfessor, Paris Nanterre UniversityMain
Scholarship and theory
Career Timeline
- 1964–1976Administrateur at INSEE
- 1970.09–1972.06Research fellow at Harvard
- 1976Régulation et crises du capitalisme
- 1982La violence de la monnaie (with André Orléan)
- 1982Professor at Paris Nanterre University