ABSTRACT
The 'Amsterdam School', or 'Amsterdam Project' (AP), has made crucial contributions to understanding transnational capital and class agency in the transformation of contemporary capitalism. comprehensive concepts of control (CCCs) comprise 'frameworks of thought and practice by which a particular world view of the ruling class spills over into a broader sense of "limits of the possible" for society at large'. As Henk Overbeek observes, CCCs provide the crucial strategic link between structural changes in capital accumulation and capitalist class agency. The genealogy of the AP has been well covered – perhaps surprisingly well for a group of researchers that is so limited in number that it can be comfortably seated around a table of one of Amsterdam's famous bruin cafes. As its social genesis is already the stuff of legends, the authors focus on its status as a school and its positioning within critical political economy.
