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 Bitcoin El Dorado

Ludovic Desmedt & Odile Lakomski-Laguerre — 2018-12-27T07:00:00Z

Conceived by its inventors as the basis of a new monetary order, Bitcoin seems to have been overtaken by finance and become the object of lucrative speculation.

Money & Value

Angèle Christin & Agnès Gramain & Florence Weber — 2016-01-18T08:00:00Z

Twenty years after the publication of Viviana Zelizer's “The Social Meaning of Money”, this special issue brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to examine the genesis of the book, its impact in shaping the analysis of economic value, and its enduring intellectual influence on both sides of the Atlantic.

Labour markets and the crisis of the European Monetary Union

Bob Hancké — 2013-04-29T07:00:00Z

Most observers think of the crisis of the European monetary union primarily as a crisis of failed fiscal discipline in a monetary union. Bob Hancke proposes a very different way of looking at this. The crisis of EMU since 2009 has laid bare problematic aspects of the interaction between employment relations, and in particular wage bargaining systems, on the one hand, and central banks on the other.

Rebuilding a Monetary Union for Europe

Shahin Vallée — 2013-01-22T08:00:00Z

The crisis has cracked the intellectual and political consensus underpinning the architecture of the monetary union enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. The mutualisation of economic risks cannot succeed without a profound rebuilding of the monetary union, involving a move towards fiscal federalism.

The family is priceless

Jeanne Lazarus — 2009-11-26T08:59:00Z

Exploring the relationships between the economy and the family through the issue of

financial compensation for the death of a child or decisions relating to food allowance, the

work of Viviana Zelizer shows how the family has been become a sacred object since the

end of the 19^th century and is now considered to be shielded from the world of economics.