Post offices, inherited from the Industrial Revolution, were monolithic telephone and postal administrations. They were intimately linked to the fabric of nations and made significant contributions to state finances. From the 1960s onwards, integrators, such as UPS and FEDEX, started offering...

On présente ici le point de vue de la science économique contemporaine sur l’alternative "structure unitaire" en matière d’organisation de l’Etat. Partant des objectifs économiques assignés à celui-ci, on examine comment ses fonctions allocatives, redistributives, macroéconomiques...