https://booksandideas.net// 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. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Lascoumes-L-economie-morale-des-elites https://booksandideas.net/Lascoumes-L-economie-morale-des-elites 2024-01-23T08:30:00Z text/html en Alizée Delpierre Politics the elite crime taxes corruption Cairn.info <p>Building on his research on corruption and white-collar crime among the ruling classes, Pierre Lascoumes takes us deep into the institutional mechanisms behind the fraud perpetrated by those who wield political and economic power in France.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-color-of-France-s-yellow-vests https://booksandideas.net/The-color-of-France-s-yellow-vests 2018-12-17T07:00:00Z text/html en Aurélien Delpirou Society social democracy France media democracy poverty violence the Île-de-France rebellion taxes town planning transports suburban yellow vests climate change <p>Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets jaunes) movement has unleashed sociological prejudices. Yet this movement reflects not so much a France split in two as a multiplicity of territorial interdependencies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Is-the-Middle-Class-a-Victim-of https://booksandideas.net/Is-the-Middle-Class-a-Victim-of 2012-05-28T06:47:00Z text/html en Antoine Bozio Politics Carousel France tax system inequalities taxes Institut français <p>What do we really know about the costs and benefits of redistribution for the middle class? Two recent studies demonstrate that while it is certainly heavily taxed, so is the vast majority of the population—including people with low incomes. The real issue lies elsewhere—notably in the privileged situation of the richest 1% and the future of public spending.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Protectionism-and-the-Birth-of https://booksandideas.net/Protectionism-and-the-Birth-of 2011-09-16T07:00:00Z text/html en Jeanne Moisand Economy History Spain taxes protectionism empire catalanism <p>Critics of Catalanism often reduce the movement to a reaction based on economic and fiscal selfishness. Jeanne Moisand shows how Catalanism originally identified itself with the defence of protectionism and the Spanish empire. It was only after the latter had been lost that the Catalan economic identity became opposed to the Spanish nation.</p>