The importance of The Spirit of laws for the political and economic thought is well-known. The aim of the paper is to reconsider the famous statements on political stability through the recent developments of New Political Economy. More precisely, we show that, as in many models of NPE, economic...

This article considers a location choice between two identical countries differentiated only by the protection they provide to corporate owners of intellectual property rights. It is shown that when foreign direct investment deters entry by local imitators, the multinational firms settles into...

After specifying the nature of taxes as a coercive power application and as a public authority expression, this article examines the way economic tax theories acknowledge these essential fiscal dimensions. We first consider the particular position of the old French public financial economics;...

This working paper offers tools for rethinking the role of ?good governance? in development strategies. What is ?good governance?? Transparency of public action, control of corruption, free operation of markets, democracy and the rule of law. Along with macroeconomic stabilisation, ?good...

The article aims at investigating the relationship between health, environmental quality and growth. I consider an olg model, where workers? human capital depends on both current environmental conditions and health care expenditures. This model generates complementarity between health...