Books & ideas

2000 years of French Economy

Éric Monnet — 2025-06-03T12:58:37Z

Charles Serfaty presents an economic history of France that is both accessible to as many readers as possible and incorporates the contributions of recent academic research.

The four paradigms of the European regulatory state

Samuel B.H. Faure — 2025-02-06T08:14:00Z

The “Europe of the market” has dominated European social and economic policy since 1945. Yet three other models have opposed the liberal paradigm: solidarity, neomercantilism, and ultra-liberalism.

Who rules the blue planet?

Guillaume Vuillemey — 2025-01-28T06:30:00Z

Maritime spaces are the focus of the major economic, ecological, and geopolitical challenges of our time. Lest they become the site of routine legal violations (ranging from pollution to overfishing), a government of the seas is necessary.

The quest for marketing

Kevin Mellet — 2024-04-02T12:00:00Z

How should marketing be studied? Thibault Le Texier adopts an approach centered on the genesis and diffusion of marketing rationality. But other scholars in the social sciences view marketing differently.

The Three Ages of Capitalism

Hervé Joly — 2023-03-28T08:24:00Z

The age of commerce, the age of the factory, the age of finance: for Pierre François and Claire Lemercier, the chronology of capitalism is the same all over the world.

The Western Conquest of the Silk Routes

Claude Markovits — 2022-06-17T08:24:20Z

The question has long preoccupied historians studying international trade and capitalism: Why did European trading companies, above all the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC), dominate Eurasian trade from the 17^th century onwards?

Scotland: Nation, Enlightenment and Empire

Clarisse Godard Desmarest — 2018-09-13T07:00:00Z

A new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh explores the changes undergone in Scotland in the fields of science, technology and literature over a century (1760-1860). It also offers a nuanced narrative of Scotland's role in the British Empire.

Inconspicuous Globalisations

Armelle Choplin & Olivier Pliez — 2016-11-14T08:00:00Z

Multinationals are not the only actors in the globalised world. Globalisation is also apparent in less visible forms of exchange that take place in spaces usually held as marginal. Armelle Choplin and Olivier Pliez focus our attention on this trade in minor mode.

Climate Change: A Way Out of Capitalism?

François Bonnet — 2015-10-12T07:00:00Z

No problem in the world is more important than climate change. In her latest book, Naomi Klein aims to show that fighting global warming means fighting capitalism. But how?

Pilgrimage to Mecca: An Industry Under Control

Sylvia Chiffoleau — 2015-09-21T05:30:00Z

By comparing the Muslim pilgrimage in its contemporary form with its past manifestations, Sylvia Chiffoleau shows how the control procedures established long ago have been strengthened and expanded by the Saudi dynasty in order to deal with a sharp rise in the number of pilgrims but also to increase its own legitimacy.