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...

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,...