INTRODUCTION: AN INTERPRETATION

1. The Turbulent Ending of the Twentieth Century
2. Technological Revolutions and Techno-Economic Paradigms
3. The Social Shaping of Technological Revolutions
4. The Propagation of Paradigms: Times of Installation, Times of Deployment
5. The Four Basic Phases of Each Surge of Development
6. Uneven Development and Time-Lags in Diffusion

PART TWO:
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE CHANGING BEHAVIOR OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL

7. Financial capital and Production Capital
8. Maturity: Financial Capital Planting the Seeds of Turbulence
at the End of the Previous Surge
9. Irruption: The Love Affair of Financial Capital with the Technological Revolution
10. Frenzy: Self-Sufficient Financial Capital Governing the Casino
11. The Turning Point: Rethinking, Regulation and Changeover
12. Synergy: Supporting the Expansion of the Paradigm across the Productive Structure
13. The Changing Nature of Financial and Institutional Innovations

PART THREE:
THE RECURRING SEQUENCE, ITS CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS

14. The Sequence and its driving forces
15. The Implications for Theory and Policy

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