Permanent readers of this journal have certainly noticed that the title of this article has a great similarity with the title of the issue No. 30 of the Revue du MAUSS. At first glance, the title of this issue “Toward another economic science (and thus toward another world)” may seem odd....

The paper is the second message (the first was called “Toward another economic science (and thus toward another institution of this science)”) of the author to the French heterodox economists (post-Keynesians, Marxists, regulationists, conventionalists, socio-economists) which has the aim to...

The aim of this article lies in the categorization of modes of regulation, of coordinated actions. We mobilize a constructivist and complex epistemo-methodology and place our approach within the economy of conventions. A regulation is perceived as a combination of cities which organizes a world,...

Of an economic approach of the tourism, made by applications of the instruments of the economist for this new field of investigation, we are gradually spent in a research on a tourist economy based on the specificities of this last one : Its temporal dimension (saisonnality of the activities,...

This paper defends the idea that Western modernity can be characterized by the rivalry of two institutions, the state and the market, competing for the charge of maintaining security against social violence while both are major sources of violence. It is so because the possibility of violence...

English Abstract: Latin notaries are more and more frequently defined as gatekeepers, due to their role in providing preventive legal control (in addition to certifying documents), a role that becomes increasingly important in modern legal systems.However, applying this american term loosely to...

Ce chapitre propose une analyse de la valeur des langues dans l'activité professionnelle en mettant l'accent sur l'estimation des différentiels de revenu du travail qui peuvent être attribués aux compétences linguistiques des individus. Une attention particulière est portée aux études...

Ce chapitre offre une revue complète des effets linguistiques sur le commerce et le bien-être. En particulier, sont présentés les enseignements essentiels des travaux économétriques sur le partage d'une langue et les flux commerciaux et faisant ainsi apparaître une variété de sources...

In the last local elections in 2015, the average participation rate was 67%. However, this average masks great disparities, between the municipality El-Fida (25%) and the commune of Tanourdi (93%). Based on a sample of 1538 municipalities, the purpose of this article is to investigate the causes...

An integral part of a multidisciplinary research project on Development Aid and its consequences in Africa, this contribution analyzes the experience of training young out-of-school farmers in the village of Ayou (present-day Commune of Allada, Republic of Benin) as part of a development support...