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...

Deux spécialistes reconnus décrivent et analysent le système français de protection sociale, en le situant dans la perspective des trente dernières années et en comparant la situation française à celle des autres membres de l’Union européenne. Les systèmes nationaux sont confrontés...

The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...

Ce papier cherche à montrer que les problèmes éthiques posés par les pratiques monétaires et financières dans la mondialisation néolibérale ne sauraient être analysés à partir de la seule critique aristotélicienne d’une certaine chrématistique, l’accumulation d’argent comme...

The objective of this article is to identify the monetary plurality in economic theory. We will try to throw light on the way in which theories are attracted towards both unicity and plurality, and more specifically by unification and diversification of money. It should also be noted, in this...