<title>Abstract</title> The developments of political economy in France between 1750 and 1776 did not allocate a central place to the discussion of the nature and functions of money. The object of this paper is to account for this fact and what it denotes: the disappearance of money as a central object in the...

[eng] J.B. Say's conception of the state dépens on the transformation of individual interests in the superior form of enlightenned interests. In such a perspective, the state has a real importance as it can further the development of enlightenment and build a system of good laws. So, there is a...

[fre] Les premières réflexions de J.B. Say au sujet des colonies sont associées au problème de l'esclavage. En effet, la question du caractère rentable ou non de l'esclavage conduit J.B. Say à poser celle du caractère rentable ou non des «îles à sucre» (1). Le système colonial...

[fre] L'article se donne pour objectif d'éclairer la nature du rapport existant entre la nouvelle sociologie économique et la théorie standart. Partant d'une typologie de la sociologie économique, l'approche en termes de réseaux sociaux est mise en avant sous deux formes distinctes :...

This article examines the place attributed to symbols and symbolic exchange in organ transplantation. In the first part, the paper studies the symbols thanks to which the Agence de la biomédecine endeavors to increasing the procurement rate through its exhortation policy. In the second part,...

The present paper establishes a general picture of Say's economic thought. The first part provides a general view of Say's writings stressing his economic publications other than the Traite, and the non-economic publications covering two other realms of what was labelled the Sciences morales et...

Herman Gossen's book is usually praised for its contribution to the mathematisation of economics and the obsessive presence of religious references is unduly left out. This paper takes both dimensions seriously and explains how the religious emphasis is crucial for a historical and theoretical...