There was in early-nineteenth-century France a widespread revival of religious sentiment, after the turmoil of the Revolution and the intellectual onslaught on religion so central to the French Enlightenment. Simultaneously, political economy became more prominent among...

The concept of social capital is widely used in the social sciences today. We risk appearing obvious by affirming that the use of the term has created a tower of Babel in research programs. This study is based on a basic distinction: it recognizes that there is a difference between understanding...

[fre] Cet article étudie la formation, le fonctionnement et le contenu de la Revue économique au cours des trente premières années de son existence. Le projet initial des fondateurs était fortement orienté par une vision pluridisciplinaire où l'économie devait rencontrer l'histoire et la...

[eng] Pareto's position on protectionism has many facets but this paper shows that his position contains insighfull analytical ideas. Alongside his papers on pure international econo­mics, Pareto was a polemist fighting against the « modern plague » (protectionism) by the spread of the...

[eng] The physiocratic project : theory of property and social link. . This paper gives an interpretation of the physiocratic project. This project tries to link together the economical and the political spheres by means of a theory of property. First, we analyse, through the works of F....