Rythmes économiques, crises et changement social La perspective théorique de Pierre Dockès et de Bernard Rosier

The work of P. Dockès and B. Rosier related to “economic rhythms” constitute a major contribution to the specification of crises and business cycles. The study re-examines their analysis of the “classical cycle”, whose turning point is the “crisis of regulation” and of the “long cycle”, whose depressive phase is characterized by the “mutation crisis”, which has the function of “restitution of order”. This not mecanicist conception, associated with the problematic of “innovation-conflicts”, makes it possible to go beyond the limits of Schumpeter’s analysis and to consider the long history of capitalism.