This article starts from the limits of the policies that assume a significant de-connection between antipoverty strategies and the logic of the growth regime and that mainly rely upon market mechanisms. By contrast, a branch of the new institutional economics argues that a complete set of...

Comment expliquer le basculement intervenu dans l'entre-deux-guerres dans l'appréciation de la qualité des vins de Bourgogne ? A partir d'une étude historique et ethnologique analysant le passage de la domination des négociants de Beaune en faveur des propriétaires, le propos est de...

Après avoir souligné la diversité des définitions et conceptions des lois en économie, l'article montre comment les progrès même de l'analyse économique ont conduit à relativiser l'existence de telles lois. Il n'a pas été possible de généraliser la théorie de l'équilibre général...

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the dynamism of employment is always contradictory to the enforcement of some forms of security for workers. Contemporary theorizing now recognizes the specificity of the wage-labour nexus. Consequently, minimum security is required for good...

It is argued that the conventional analysis of the 2001 Argentina crisis in terms of populist budgetary policies and institutional rigidities of labor market is not satisfactory. The 2001 collapse takes place within a long history, but it results from a quite specific factor: the structural...

This article surveys some old and recent political economy research about the long term transformations and contemporary diversity in the mutual relationships between State, civil society and the economy. The hypothesis of institutional complementarity is extended from the institutional forms...

Les difficultés d'application du pacte de stabilité et de croissance, apparues au début des années 2000, sont rattachées à la question plus générale du statut des politiques économiques, budgétaires et monétaires dans l'intégration européenne. Ce statut est relativement secondaire...

Why did CEOs remuneration exploded during the 90s and persisted to high levels, even after the bursting out of the Internet bubble? This article surveys the alternative explanations that have been given of this paradox mainly by various economic theories with some extension to political science,...

Contrary to the prognosis derived from the variety of capitalism literature, since the mid-90s the significant restructuring of large German corporations in the direction of shareholder value seems to have been compatible with the persistence of a genuine configuration of industrial relations,...