In this article, the universalist economic model of homo ?conomicus put down by the presently dominant economics is considered as making sense mainly in the individualist Anglo-American mental, juridical and ethical universe. Therefore the present crisis of the euro can be understood as the...

Are institutionalism and structuralism compatible or do they confront each other? This article suggests an answer to this question, starting from an analysis of the structuration of these two paradigmatic fields of social sciences. It observes the existence in economics of both structuralist...

This article adresses the issue of the economic irrationality, political unreasonableness, and social unsustenability of financial globalization. Firstly it tackles the reasons for breaking off with financial globalization that can be inferred from its self-referential functioning which has been...

In this paper, we examine the representations of money by three major political philosophers, namely Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. These authors had a major impact on the making of Western states, notably through their ways to express the issue of the people’s...