The recent debt reduction operation carried out by Technicolor using the proceeds of two capital increases (one reserved for an institutional investor, the other maintaining shareholders' preferential subscription rights), just two years after the end of the bankruptcy proceedings, raises...

The relationship between law and economic development remains enigmatic. There is no doubt that, broadly speaking, legal mechanisms for social control (or “institutions,” to use North’s words) play a major role. Nevertheless, the impact of legal organization on economic development has not...

This chapter examines how proponents of industrialization used multiple modes of communication to socially construct the rational myth of industrialization in the French construction sector after World War II. We illuminate the respective roles of visual and verbal communication in this process....

The aim of this paper is to understand why some economies do not adopt existing technologies. It focuses on the political factor and studies this phenomenon through the distinctive and interesting experience of European growth: the remarkable economic expansion that took place in northwestern...