Il y a, pense Nicolas Oresme, comme une fatalite de la guerre et de la violence. C'est elle qui justifie la division irreductible de l'espace politique en entites souveraines. Seule une royaute juste aux pouvoirs moderes, aux appetits mesures, peut y porter remede. Mais il convient aussi, pour...

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of labour mobility and rural migration in the formation of working class attitudes characteristic of capitalism (proletarianisation) - discusses relationships with division of labour, and considers elements of social conflict inherent in workers...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between migration trends and social structure - argues that landowner-rural worker relations based on land tenure and feudalism comprise a foundation for increased mobility and the transition to capitalism (i.e. Social class differentiation,...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper tracing the evolution of migration policy involving state intervention to reduce problems of overpopulation and employment in Indonesia - describes historical internal migration from java and bali to the outer islands during colonialism and after to up 1979, and...

Some papers, for reasons which remain at least partially obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such is the case with Keynes’ paper “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, although it never attracted much attention within the economic profession, besides...