<DIV>Microcredit programs, which often give small loans to borrowers in developing countries who lack collateral, have been considered efficient tools for economic development in struggling regions around the world. Yet, recently, microcredit has come under increasing critic by experts who feel that...</div>

The article raises the concealment of sharing in La Monnaie souveraine (1998) and in the works it inspired. The neoliberalism made hegemonic an approach by the circulation of money and more generally of all social facts. However, this catallactic vision that some critics of the orthodox economy...

The article raises the concealment of sharing in La Monnaie souveraine (1998) and in the works it inspired. The neoliberalism made hegemonic an approach by the circulation of money and more generally of all social facts. However, this catallactic vision that some critics of the orthodox economy...

[eng] Exclusion, a paradox of finance . This article develops an etymologic analisys of the word « Finance ». . JEL Classification : B30 [fre] Une étymologie contestée du mot « finance », comme étant ce qui met « fin » grâce à l’acte de paiement, nourrit l’idée que la finance est...

[eng] There is no agreement between economists about the definition of money. The authors indicate the necessity of a transhistoricai definition of the concept of Money. A relevant definition must take account of the wide range of monetary practices and forms which can be observed through time...

This work questions the nature of money through the analysis of a complex set of local monetary systems located in Argentina (trueque). It is based on both the reconstitution of the history of the main national trueque networks (meso-level) and the observation of the monetary and financial...

Both in the Norths and in the Souths, a compromise between a neoliberal anti-statist logic and interests of non governmental organizations marked the construction of civil societies. This is achieved particularly through the social business supported by big companies. By mobilizing the polanyien...

Since six decades alternate arguments which are favourable, or which are hostile to the development aid. Since the spreading of the term “development”, they join the political, ideological and economic debates of every period. The article shows how the term “aid” strangely resisted to...