Books & ideas

Newness: same old song?

Lucile Truffy — 2026-05-14T06:30:00Z

The love for newness did not begin with modern consumer society. It has long been capitalism's primary engine and has been central to how it imagines the market. At present, its environmental impact is disastrous.

Capitalism: the great transition

Quentin Badaire — 2026-03-10T09:00:00Z

Is it possible to identify the origin of the shift from feudalism to capitalism? Such a transition cannot be reduced to the expansion of trade or a linear evolution. It implies a transformation of social relations, work, and production.

Moral Socialism

Julien Le Mauff — 2026-02-18T15:55:56Z

How can we move beyond the double deadlock of state socialism and market capitalism? For Lea Ypi, returning to Kant and the Enlightenment offers a perspective to provide a new ground to freedom as social responsibility, and to open up towards a cosmopolitan horizon against the authoritarianism of profit.

Capitalism and injustice

Fabien Tarrit — 2025-05-27T07:56:01Z

It is hard to do without the concept of exploitation when describing the many forms of injustice created by capitalism. Marx remains very much our contemporary.

A European code of capital ?

Éric Monnet & Antoine Vauchez — 2024-12-31T08:49:00Z

Katharina Pistor has renewed the critique of economic inequality by showing how the institutions of private law form the lock of an unequal economic and social system.

Jobs, Bezos, Musk, and the Rest

Marc Abélès — 2024-10-22T05:00:00Z

The hood-wearing entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are workers subject to often fierce competition. Inequalities abound in the world of innovation.

In the Land of Logistics

Gilles Paché — 2024-05-09T06:25:59Z

By analysing a generalised process of “logistisation”, Mathieu Quet shows that the circulation of people and goods is at the heart of our societies. But has logistics also captured language and the living world?

The Plastic Reality of Capitalism

Fabien Eloire — 2024-03-14T08:04:00Z

Two hundred years after its emergence in the West, capitalism has become a culture in the broad sense, a way of life, and an ideology. It permeates all spheres of society, including work and politics, and insinuates itself in children through education and the family.

What Political Economy for Science?

Brice Laurent — 2023-12-26T08:30:00Z

By putting forward an analysis of the historical depths of the bonds connecting science to capitalism, Gabriel Galvez-Behar's book opens up stimulating research perspectives for a critical analysis of the political economy of knowledge.

Coaching Your Company

Jean-Marc Weller — 2023-10-05T07:40:00Z

In her new book, sociologist Scarlett Salman analyzes a figure that embodies the new spirit of capitalism: the corporate coach. She provides a unique insight into the changes that contemporary capitalism has wrought not only within organizations, but also on types of mindsets.