"Alors que les innovations financières, les subprimes et l'économie de casino sont brandies par la classe politique comme les seuls éléments caractéristiques à l'origine d'une crise du capitalisme en ce début du XXIe siècle, cet ouvrage s'interroge sur l'existence de changements d'une...

"The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth...

Though written at different times, and in response to different occasions, the essays in this book aim to offer a convincing and coherent approach to the interpretation of the topic referred to in the title. The initial impetus for this long course of historical research came in 1976, with a...