Regulation-school analysis examines the full package of stabilizing arrangements in each period.

Evidence

The virtue of ‘regulation school’ thinking is that it insists we look at the total package of relations and arrangements that contribute to the stabilization of output growth and aggregate distribution of income and consumption in a particular historical period and place. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 740

Categorization

• DEFINE: This defines what the ‘regulation school’ approach actually is — the analytic core Harvey will deploy to periodize Fordism vs. flexible accumulation in later chapters.
• XREF: This is the key rival-periodization tool the reader wants — the regulation school framework is what distinguishes Harvey’s from other accounts of postmodern economization.