Problemy kapitalizmu we francuskiej teorii regulacji

espite many crisises, for more than 200 years capitalism has been a system which does not lose its significance. The French school of regulation, which was created as an answer to the crisis of the 1970's and the co-existing phenomenon of stagflation, is trying to explain why despite numerous crisises afflicting this system, it manage to evolve and adapt to new conditions. The objective of the article is to discuss synthetically the problems of capitalism from the point of view of regulation theory. The first part of the article explains the basic principles of regulation theory. Categories such as regimes of accumulation, modes of regulation, means of production or institutional forms constitute the starting point of consideration for the regulationists. This perspective allows to explain significant reasons for crisises and to indicates many types of productions regimes and their evolution. The abovementioned issues were discussed in the second part of the article.