Throughout the past two decades, Bob Jessop has drawn considerable attention to the compatibility between French Régulation (FR) and Critical Realist approaches (CR), arguing that FR implicitly works within a critical realist ontology, epistemology and methodology. Inspired by his insights, I argue that a Spinozian‐led Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach (ICMA) provides a fruitful avenue for further regulationist research and represents a promising effort to ground FR in (meta)theory, whereby, ontologically speaking, the ICMA explores how structure and agency emerge, intertwine and redefine each other in and over time. The two approaches mutually reinforce each other: ICMA is able to provide FR with a solid theoretical and metatheoretical foundation, while FR, can enrich the ICMA with its direct engagement with capitalism related studies and a well‐developed terminology in the field. The value added of ICMA can be seen in four points: it (1) clarifies the distinction between extensive and intensive regimes of accumulation and the speed of technological change, (2) specifies the problematique of hierarchy and stability of the dominant bloc, (3) fleshes out the problematique of endometabolism and hybridity, and (4) provides the researcher with a methodological framework to absent the necessary relations at the level of conditioning.

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批判现实主义者的相遇：改良法国的调整方法

在过去的二十年中，鲍勃·杰索普（Bob Jessop）引起了人们对法国法规（FR）与批判现实主义方法（CR）之间兼容性的关注，认为FR隐含地在批判现实主义本体论，认识论和方法论中起作用。受到他的见识的启发，我认为斯宾诺兹领导的内在因果性成因方法（ICMA）为进一步的调控论研究提供了富有成果的途径，并代表了将FR作为（元）理论的有前途的努力，从本体上讲，ICMA探讨了如何结构和代理出现，交织和重新定义随着时间的推移彼此。两种方法相互补充：ICMA能够为法国提供坚实的理论和元理论基础，而FR可以通过直接参与资本主义相关研究和该领域成熟的术语来丰富ICMA。ICMA的增值可以从四个方面看出：（1）阐明了集约化和集约化制度与技术变革速度之间的区别；（2）阐明了主导集团的等级和稳定性问题，（3 ）完善了内代谢和杂交的问题，（4）为研究人员提供了一种在条件水平上缺乏必要关系的方法框架。