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Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007.

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Economy

The Price of the Planet

by Nicolas Bouleau, 12 December

By setting the prices of raw materials, financial markets influence our relation to the environment. Nicolas Bouleau examines the environmental governance of these markets and invites us to shift our priorities away from economic logics toward a concern for nature and for the long term.

Dossier

Do Philanthropists Actually Love the Planet?

by Edouard Morena, 11 December

Capitalism, climate change and philanthropy

Dossier

Who Will Save the Planet?

by Ivan Ascher & Marieke Louis, 10 December

Dossier

The Unlikely State of Climate Justice

by Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright, 10 December

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Review

The Lost World of Wood Runners

by Paul Mapp, 6 December

“Wood runners” is the name given to travelling fur traders in the age of...
Essay

What Non-Demand Demands

by Philippe Warin, 3 December

On the non-take-up of social welfare
Interview

Japanoise: Affect at the Edge of Music

by Edouard Degay Delpeuch, 29 November

An Interview with David Novak
Recension

The Colour of Law

by Alice Béja, 26 November

A new anthology provides French translations of key texts in the field of...
Review

Forest Resistance

by Matthieu Calame, 22 November

By enmeshing infrastructures, power is able to curtail local...
Essay

The Social Diplomacy of Multinational Corporations

by Marieke Louis, 19 November

Just as an international treaty on the social responsibility of...

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Books & Ideas: a permanent library

Interview

Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010
Interview

Is representative democracy really democratic ?

by Hélène Landemore, 31 March 2008
Essay

The Nature and Limits of the Majority Principle

by Pasquale Pasquino, 20 April 2011
Interview

The Greek State: Its Past and Future

by Nicolas Delalande, 20 March 2012
Interview

When the lottery is fairer than rational choice

by Florent Guénard & Hélène Landemore, 26 November 2008
Essay

From Risk To Disaster

by Florent Guénard & Philippe Simay, 8 June 2011
Essay

Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet, 21 February 2012
Essay

Is China Asian?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 8 April 2011
Essay

Louis Dumont’s Political Thought

by Vincent Descombes, 17 April 2012
Essay

When Immigration Is a Crime

by Luca d’Ambrosio, 24 October 2011
Interview

The American State: Power Obscured

by Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz, 15 November 2011
Essay

What justice after war?

by Christian Nadeau, 14 January 2010
Interview

The Empirical Sociology of Critique

by Nicolas Duvoux, 14 February 2012
Essay

Human Rights and Politics

by Justine Lacroix, 24 October 2012
Essay

Who owns nature ?

by Philippe Descola, 21 January 2008
Campaigning for Ideas

Are we Represented?

by Émilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka, 6 January 2012

Dossiers

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The Fall of the House of Obama?

by Pauline Peretz, 30 December 2011

Can Obama still defend an agenda for prosperity?
Dossier

European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard, 24 October 2011
Dossier

Youths of Two Continents

by Thomas Grillot, 7 August 2012

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