In the first section of this paper, the author demonstrates the crucial significance of anchoring symbolically a currency in the representation of a social whole, not least when practical and technical problems bound up with the creation of a new unit of account and the associated means of...

A partir d’une approche interdisciplinaire, l’article cherche à élucider ce qu’on peut appeler la nature de la monnaie. Pour cela, on distingue d’abord les propriétés génériques de toute monnaie et ses usages non spécifiquement monétaires. On présente ensuite les trois formes...

This article looks for an understanding and explanation of the responsability of economics in the upsurge and development of the present crisis. It studies the interdependencies between the three streams of ideas which today dominate the departments of economics and finance of universities....

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...

Cet article part de l'idée que la souveraineté monétaire et la souveraineté politique ne doivent pas être confondues, mais que, pour autant, les principes d'organisation de la monnaie n’en doivent pas moins être cohérents avec ceux qui fondent la communauté politique. Ainsi,...