Fast food development is not any more centered on homogenous world products. Fast food chains are more and more using regional food to attract new markets. After a period where the world system was the engine of fast food diffusion, ethnic and regional food is back. In countries where people are...

Le « non urbain » couvre l’essentiel de l’espace des pays occidentaux. C’est le lieu d’invention de nouvelles pratiques économiques, sociales, de pouvoir, liées à un processus fondamental : la rurbanisation. Cet article se propose d’analyser les causes de ce mouvement et de...

In occidental countries the ?non urban? land covers the majority of national territories. It is the place of invention for new economic, social, and power practices, linked to the fundamental process of rurbanisation. In this paper, we propose to analyze the reasons for this movement and to find...

Approaches of New Spatial Economy have the merit to be a current essay on globalisation, but it is important to accept its complex character, with the persistence of nuances. In opposition to a simplistic vision of spatial economics, these continue to work respectively, in the rather...

Too often, research is paying attention to the ricardian gain or to corruption only, while what is needed in the real world is, above all, a residual appreciation of both phenomena. Arthur Dunkel and Pietro Balestra ? two great economists who both passed away in June 2005 ? were preoccupied,...