European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...

Why has the EU been so eager to continue the climate negotiations? Can it be solely attributed to the <p> EU feeling morally obliged to be the main initiator of continued progress on the climate change <p> negotiations, or can industrial interests in the EU, at least partly, explain the behaviour of...</p></p>

The political economy idea developed by Ackerman and Hassler (1981) is the starting point of this <p> paper. It suggested that a coalition of environmentalists and industrialists successfully lobbied the <p> US Congress. More strict technology-based standards for new sources than existing sources was...</p></p>

(english) The classical and more recent theories on development all fail to explain Madagascar’s long-running economic underperformance. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Malagasy history based on the analytical framework of political economy. Our analyses point to the fact that,...

(english) This paper is an attempt to assess the relevance of the use of the North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) framework to explain the performances of Burkina Faso in terms of economic growth and development. The political history of Burkina Faso has been very unstable until president Campaoré...

(english) This last decade has seen the emergence of a new field of research in development economics: randomised control trials. This paper explores the contrast between the (many) limitations and (very narrow) real scope of these methods and their success in sheer number and media coverage....