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The Christian Origins of the Anthropocene

by Rémi Beau, 7 December 2020

About: Sylvain Piron, L’Occupation du monde, Zones sensibles
Review

Against Hereditary Rights

by Rafe Blaufarb, 21 September 2020

About: Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology, The Belknap Press, 2020
Essay

“Brains” and their “Servants”: the New Class Domination

by Bruno Palier, 25 June 2020

A Response to Torben Iversen, Part III

Articles

Review

The New Public Management

by Hugh Pemberton, 22 June 2017

About: Christopher Hood, and Ruth Dixon, A Government That Worked Better and Cost Less?: Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government, Oxford University Press.
Review

The End of Modern Economic Growth as We Know It

by Jean-Pierre Dormois, 1 June 2017

About: Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth : The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, Princeton University Press.
Review

Black Diamond

by Sarah Benabou, 20 April 2017

About: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate.
Review

The Radical Uncertainty of the Economy

by Jean-Pierre Landau, 3 April 2017

About: Mervyn King, The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy, W. W. Norton & Company.
Review

The Agricultural New Deal

by Federico D’Onofrio, 30 March 2017

About: Alain Chatriot, La politique du blé : crises et régulation d’un marché dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres, Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France.
Essay

Economics: An Experimental Science?

by Sylvie Thoron, 27 March 2017

In economics, the study of behavior has been enriched by a productive dialogue between theory and experiments. Challenging...
Review

The Government Under Attack

by Gianfranco Poggi, 23 February 2017

About: Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Review

The Avant-Garde System

by Pamela Bianchi, 16 February 2017

About: Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Les avant-gardes artistiques 1848–1918. Une histoire transnationale, Gallimard.
Essay

The Return of Economic History?

by Guillaume Calafat & Éric Monnet, 30 January 2017

The recent success of books on economic history – at a time when this specialism often seems disregarded in universities –...
Essay

Learning from Randomized Controlled Experiments

by Agnès Labrousse, 23 January 2017

The Narrative of Scientificity, Practical Complications, Historical Experience
Review

The Great Climate Change Market

by Lucile Maertens, 5 January 2017

About: Romain Felli, La grande adaptation. Climat, capitalisme et catastrophe, Seuil.
Review

The General Interest

by Philippe Steiner, 5 December 2016

About: Jean Tirole, Économie du bien commun, Presses Universitaires de France.
Essay

Inconspicuous Globalisations

by Armelle Choplin & Olivier Pliez, 14 November 2016

Towards a new geography of global trade
Essay

In Defense of Materialism

by Clément Carbonnier, 27 September 2016

This text is a commentary on the article by Geoffrey Hodgson entitled “Conceptualizing Capitalism: How the Misuse of Key Concepts Impedes our Understanding of Modern Economies”, which was published on 7 May 2015 in Books and Ideas.
Essay

Elinor Ostrom: Fighting the Tragedy of the Commons

by Juan Camilo Cardenas & Rajiv Sethi, 12 September 2016

Among the recipients of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was Elinor Ostrom, for her analysis of economic...
Review

Wealth for All?

by Jérôme Gautié, 8 September 2016

About: Philippe Askenazy, Tous rentiers! Pour une autre répartition des richesses Odile Jacob.
Essay

The End of the Traditional Art Gallery? (Part Two)

by Alvaro Santana Acuña, 9 May 2016

Dark Intermediaries, 1% Collectors, and Global Galleries
Essay

BRICs and Emerging Markets

by Wladimir Andreff, 14 April 2016

The New International Investors
Essay

Crime and Money

by Alexandre Roig, 28 January 2016

Monetary Hierarchy in Prison
Dossier

Money & Value

by Angèle Christin & Agnès Gramain & Florence Weber, 18 January 2016

Twenty Years After Viviana Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money
Review

Weber’s Legacy

by Gianfranco Poggi, 23 November 2015

About: Lawrence Scaff, Weber and the Weberians, Palgrave Macmillan.
Interview

Party, Capitalists and Class in China

by Émilie Frenkiel, 29 October 2015

An Interview with David S.G. Goodman
Interview

Big Data: The Far West of Information?

by Cristelle Terroni, 17 September 2015

An Interview with Pierre-Michel Menger & Simon Paye
Essay

Is Debt the Achilles’ Heel of Europe?

, 16 July 2015

The history of European debt is a cautionary tale about the powerful inducements for households, companies and states to ‘live...
Essay

The Recruitment Game

by Sarah Labelle & Aude Seurrat, 18 June 2015

Using Video Games as Hiring Tools
Essay

Conceptualizing Capitalism

by Geoffrey Hodgson, 7 May 2015

How the Misuse of Key Concepts Impedes our Understanding of Modern Economies
Essay

The ECB: A Democratic Problem for Europe?

by Clément Fontan, 30 April 2015

During the eurozone crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) did not just respond to the risks of financial instability; it...
Essay

Cost and Quality

by Florian Mayneris, 20 April 2015

The French Economy’s “Competitiveness” Problem
Essay

Power to the Piketties!

, 17 February 2015

While confessing her admiration for Thomas Piketty, American economist Nancy Folbre has three objections to his theories....
Interview

Alternative Foods, Activism and Strawberries in California

by Thomas Grillot & Nicolas Larchet, 10 February 2015

An interview with Julie Guthman
Essay

Redefining Sustainable Economies

by Michel Gueldry, 12 January 2015

How can one challenge the hegemony of neo-classical economics? In this essay, Michel Gueldry examines the emergence, scope...
Essay

Has the Competitiveness Obsession Killed Europe?

by Ecolinks, 29 December 2014

The policies implemented in response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and serious economic imbalances evoke the concept of...
Review

Discussing Karl Polanyi, Understanding the Current Crisis

by Gianfranco Poggi, 11 December 2014

About: Fred Block & Margaret Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, Harvard University Press
Essay

The 100-year Welfare State?

by Michael Huberman, 1 December 2014

Clichés notwithstanding, the demise of the welfare state has been greatly exaggerated. Despite diverse interests, groups of...
Essay

The Growth of Inequality from 2007 to 2014

by Nicolas Frémeaux, 5 November 2014

After declining in 2008-2009, income inequality has now returned to its pre-crisis level and even beyond. This situation is...
Dossier

Debating Inequalities : Transatlantic Perspectives

by The editorial team & Lucie Campos & Caitlin Zaloom, 3 November 2014

In this virtual roundtable published in partnership with Public Books, four participants from France, Germany and the US...
Review

Stay classy, Piketty

by Erik Olin Wright, 3 November 2014

Reviewed: Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, 2014.
Dossier

Environmentalism – A Multidisciplinary Perspective

by Ophélie Siméon, 14 September 2014

A summer Selection
Review

African Independence Reconsidered

by Alden Young, 8 September 2014

About: Frederick Cooper, Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State, Harvard University Press.
Essay

A Self-Subversive Temperament

by Cyrille Ferraton & Ludovic Frobert, 23 July 2014

A Portrait of Albert Hirschman

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