Abstract:

The article attempts to conceptualize “macro-regimes” by integrating different strands of the Social Sciences. On the basis of the actual usage of the term in economics and political science, it uses the sociological concept of control regimes to profile the term. The idea of a Macro-Regime is then applied to various real world theories of the complex interaction between macroeconomics and society. It concludes with an outlook: How might reasoning in macro-regimes be helpful in understanding (and potentially shaping) Great Transformations? The perspective is one of an applied macroeconomist willing to engage in a discourse on social change that reaches beyond economics.