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 academic theorization of American political economy.

Preface Robert Boyer. Introduction: The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach Jacques-Henri Coste, Laurence Cossu-Beaumont and Jean-Baptiste Velut Part 1: Re-embedding the Financial Crisis in its Cultural Milieu Chapter 1: The "Wild West" on Wall Street: An analysis of and prognosis for the American model of postmodern finance capital in the global economy James McBride Chapter 2: Why and how the Fed contributed to massive failure in asset markets Nicholas Sowels Chapter 3: The Resilience of American neoliberalism Bradley T. Smith Chapter 4: Consumption, circulation and the crisis of American capitalism Pierre Arnaud Part 2: Shifting Paradigms, Shifting Scopes: Beyond the National Crisis Chapter 5: A U.S. National Model of Capitalism? Lessons from the Great Recession Martine Azuelos Chapter 6: Who's left to sink or swim? Practices and policies of the 'submerged state' at the subnational level in the wake of the economic recession Cécile Cormier Chapter 7: The subprime crisis: A multiscalar issue challenging the American dream Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin Chapter 8: Transcending boundaries: America's hybrid and multiscalar response to the competitive challenge of globalization Jean-Baptiste Velut Part 3: Disruptive and Creative Agency: The Dynamics of Cultural Resilience and Renewal Chapter 9: The evolutions of the US innovation system as a political economy paradigm: from innovation policy making to ecoystemic governance? Jacques-Henri Coste Chapter 10: U.S. Labor market institutions and employment dynamics: a turning point? Catherine Sauviat Chapter 11: Occupy Wall Street: Anything More than a Fly in the Ointment? Marie-Christine Pauwels Chapter 12: The Giving Pledge: Philanthropy and the reinvention of American capitalism Laurence Cossu-Beaumont