Toshio Yamada is Emeritus Professor at Nagoya University, having previously served as Professor of Economic Theories at Osaka City University, Nagoya University, etc. in Japan. He graduated from Graduate School of Economics of Nagoya University, and got a doctor's degree in economics from Osaka City University. He is a director of the Société Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Economiques and a member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. His research interests focus on French régulation theory, Japanese civil society thought, and contemporary capitalism. His works in English include Japanese Capitalism in Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation (2000, co-edited with Robert Boyer).

Part I: Postwar Japan and the Theory of Civil Society.- Chapter 1: Political Economy in Japan after World War II.- Chapter 2: Yoshihiko Uchida and his Thoughts on Civil Society: Between Equality in Exchange and Equality as Human Beings.- Chapter 3: Kiyoaki Hirata and his Thoughts on Civil Society.- Part II: The Rise and Fall of Contemporary Japanese Capitalism.- Chapter 4: The Introduction of Régulation Theory in Japan.- Chapter 5: Postwar Japanese Capitalism and Companyist Régulation.- Chapter 6: The Collapse of Companyism and Today's Post-companyist Transformation.- Chapter 7: Analyses of Japanese Capitalism Based on the Régulation Approach: An Overview of Thirty Years of Research.- Part III: Theoretical Considerations of Contemporary Capitalism.- Chapter 8: Stage Theory or Typology?: Methodological Reflections on the Comparative Analysis of Capitalism.- Chapter 9: Economic Crises and Growth Regimes.- Chapter 10: The Neoliberal Regime and its Possible Crisis: A Reflection from the Viewpoint of Institutional Change.- Chapter 11: Transition Economies and State Capitalism.