This article deals with public debt dynamics in France. It also analyses several contemporary debates such as Ricardian equivalence, sustainability and budget balance decomposition. Public deficit is not necessarily the result of a Keynesian type of expansionary fiscal policy. It can also stem...

Ce texte analyse la dynamique de l'endettement public de la France au regard de divers débats contemporains (équivalence ricardienne, soutenabilité, décomposition du solde budgétaire). La présence d'un déficit public ne résulte pas nécessairement d'une politique budgétaire...

This article deals with public debt dynamics in France. It also analyses several contemporary debates such as Ricardian equivalence, sustainability and budget balance decomposition. Public deficit is not necessarily the result of a Keynesian type of expansionary fiscal policy. It can also stem...

This paper sums up the Marxian analysis of the capitalist exploitation process. The double aspect of direction is emphasized. Notions of formal and real exploitation are used to show that division of labor is less the way to improve productivity than to increase the capital's share of the...

Technical determinism is often presented as a shortcoming of the old neoclassical approach of which the "new theories" are supposed to be ridded. This paper shows that technical determinism is nevertheless still present.