Michel Aglietta, who passed away on April 24, 2025, was one of the greatest economists of his generation. As a thinker on capitalism, its macroeconomic dynamics, and money, he was recognized by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, embodying the figure of the economist rooted in the social sciences. His approach to bridging disciplinary boundaries to combine economics, social issues, and, more recently, ecology, is at odds with contemporary over-specialization practices that hinder our understanding of the world's complexity and our ability to address the challenges we face.

Michel Aglietta co-founded two schools of thought: the regulation school with Robert Boyer and the institutionalist theory of money with André Orléan, which are closely intertwined and mutually reinforcing.

Michel Aglietta's research offers a theoretical interpretation of the evolution and crises of capitalism, combining the theoretical influences of major thinkers of capitalism such as Marx, Keynes, Kalecki, Minsky, and Polanyi, as well as contributions from other social sciences, most notably history and the claimed influence of Braudel and the German historical school. The research program of the regulation school and the institutionalist approach to money are rooted in a radical critique of the neoclassical research program, which focuses on the market economy rather than capitalism and neglects money. Michel Aglietta's thinking is at the exact opposite of neoclassical thinking. Pure, decontextualized, and ahistorical theory has no room here. Whatever the field studied — money, financial instability, wage-labour nexus, or ecological transition — economics, social issues, and politics are never dissociated.

The research programs initiated and developed by Michel Aglietta have been profoundly renewed in the recent period considering the ecological sustainability challenge facing our accumulation regime. This is illustrated by the emergence of a young generation of researchers who share these programs and research approaches and who, like Michel Aglietta in the latter part of his life, are attempting to bridge the gap between the school of regulation and ecological economics.

The aim of this academic conference is to honor Michel Aglietta, an exceptional economist, the originality of his ideas and his influence on economic thought. For this reason, the research papers selected should be in line with Michel Aglietta's own intellectual legacy.

Proposals should fit into one of the four themes that structure Michel Aglietta's research:

1. The dynamics of capitalism and the Anthropocene: from financialized capitalism to the future of capitalism

2. Currency and sovereignty: theoretical and historical contributions, the International Monetary System and Euro

3. International financial macroeconomics: financial crises and regulation

4. Economics and social sciences: cross-fertilization

Proposals (including name, institution, and keywords) may be submitted in the form of an abstract (max. 700 words). Proposals must specify the theme to which they relate. 

Selected article proposals may be published in the scientific journals associated with the conference:

• for articles written in French or English, publication in the Revue de la Régulation may be considered, for those that adopt a historical perspective on economic thought in the Cahiers d'Économie Politique,
• for articles written in English, the conference is associated with the International Journal of Political Economy

In the three cases, authors must follow the usual peer review procedure for these journals, specifying that the articles are being submitted following the conference

Deadlines: 

• Proposals must be submitted by 20 January 2026.
• The scientific committee will respond by 3 April 2026.
• Articles must be submitted by 15 May 2026.

Gaëtan Le Quang, Laurence Scialom, Florian Baudoin, Lucas Benyattou, Basile Clerc, Raphaël Ottman, Adam Poupard, Luca Tausch

Vincent Bignon, Robert Boyer, Anton Brender, Régis Breton, Olivier Brossard, Jean Cartelier, Renaud Du Tertre, Etienne Espagne, Laurent Le Maux, Gaëtan Le Quang, Valérie Mignon, Benoît Mojon, André Orléan, Pepita Ould Ahmed, Jean-François Ponsot, Xavier Ragot,  Antoine Reberioux, Sandra Rigot, Laurence Scialom, Yamina Tadjeddine, Natacha Valla.