From the turn of the 19th century, huge amounts of capital were exported from Europe, mainly from Great-Britain and France, to less-developed countries. Many scholars have asked about the motives and the consequences of these exports. Goetzmann and Ukhov [2006], using a modem portfolio theory...

The aim of this article is to show the main lines and methodological principles of the approach to Arthur Spiethoff?s thinking on business cycles. This is still relevant (with no paralogism) and too often ignored or simply poorly known outside the German- speaking academic world. A presentation...

In this paper, infrequent large temporary and permanent shocks that have affected the quarterly GDP series for France, the United Kingdom and the United States are analyzed in the post World War II period using the outlier method. Strong proof of permanent and/or transitory shocks are found,...

The development of education (essentially primary schooling) has been considered since the beginning of the nineteenth century as a major process and notably characteristic of developed capitalist societies. This being so, in spite of abundant literature devoted to this extremely delicate...