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/Reinventing-Capitalism https://booksandideas.net/Reinventing-Capitalism 2020-06-15T07:00:00Z text/html en Torben Iversen Economy capitalism democracy inequalities populism technology crisis neoliberalism Books and ideas originals <p>Should we blame capitalism for the challenges rich democracies have been facing over the past thirty years—from growing inequality to the rise of populism? According to Torben Iversen, the opposite is true: it was democracy that transformed capitalism to take full advantage of new technologies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Norbert-Elias-Catherine-Deneuve-and-Gender-Equality https://booksandideas.net/Norbert-Elias-Catherine-Deneuve-and-Gender-Equality 2019-03-25T07:30:00Z text/html en Florence Delmotte Society women progress sexual harassment <p>Since the Weinstein affair, there has been a great deal of debate over men's sexual urges. The sociology of Norbert Elias is a precious resource to help understand that historic moment and move beyond the opposition between the “freedom to pester” and the moral duty to “rat out your pig”.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Refugee-Crises-of-the-16th-and-17th-Century https://booksandideas.net/The-Refugee-Crises-of-the-16th-and-17th-Century 2016-08-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Isabelle Poutrin migration Spain Europe refugees Florence Gould Foundation <p>In the early modern period, Spain and Portugal carried out dramatic mass expulsions that affected more than half a million people of Jewish or Muslim faith. Revisiting the fate of these populations helps to put into perspective the refugee crisis that the world is currently facing.</p>