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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.

Why Social Democratic Parties no longer expropriate the Rich?

About: Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty, Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities. A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020, Harvard University press

by Charlotte Cavaillé, 20 October

In a new edited volume, a group of economists map variations in the determinants of voting to better understand the political processes behind the rise in income inequality.

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The Multiplicity of Gender

by Emmanuel Beaubatie, 13 October

The multiplicity of possible gender positions cannot be reduced to a spectrum opposing male and female. Numerous conceptions...

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The Force of Feminisms

by Johanna Lenne-Cornuez, 6 October

About: B. Pavard, F. Rochefort et M. Zancarini-Fournel, Ne nous libérez pas, on s’en charge. Une histoire des féminismes de 1789 à nos jours, La Découverte

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How Power came to Men

by Martine Storti, 29 September

About: Éliane Viennot, L’âge d’or de l’ordre masculin. La France, les femmes et le pouvoir, 1804-1860, CNRS Éditions

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Are Novels Part of Our DNA?

by Alvaro Santana Acuña, 29 May 2014
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The Culture of Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 19 July 2011
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Academic Inbreeding: An Evaluation

by Olivier Godechot & Alexandra Louvet, 22 April 2010
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Allotment and Democracy in Ancient Greece

by Paul Demont, 13 December 2010
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Promoting democracy : a theoretical impasse ?

by Florent Guénard, 28 November 2007
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Republican Reflections on the 15-M Movement

by Philip Pettit, 20 September 2011
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Drug Legalization? A French Perspective

by Renaud Colson, 7 October 2013
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Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet, 21 February 2012
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Who Rules the Global Rule Makers?

by Martin Albrow, 3 November 2011
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For an Ecological Democracy

by Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside, 1 September 2009
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The Media Revolution and Public Debate

by Charles Girard, 3 January 2012
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Rebel with a Prescription: Eminem, or America on Drugs

by Sylvie Laurent, 23 October 2009
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Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010
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How to Modernize the British Welfare State

by Antoine Colombani, 6 May 2010
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Protectionism as Internationalist Liberalism

by David Todd, 17 January 2012
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Back to Asia

by Émilie Frenkiel & Bernard Thomann, 20 December 2011

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Faces of the Pandemic

by The editorial team, 17 April 2020

We seem to struggle to take the measure of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its onset was sudden, its effects are uncertain and its...
The Making of Race

by The editorial team, 27 July 2020

A Summer Selection, Part II
Money & Value

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

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

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