Cet article étudie les positions des économistes classiques français dans la période allant de 1803 à 1848. La première partie considère la manière dont, une fois mis de côté une grande part de leur propre héritage en économie politique, les auteurs français ou de langue française...

The French egalitarian law of bequests is a social device for distributing wealth from one generation to the other. The law of bequest is the result of a political debate within the Conseil d’État in which political considerations (the new democratic social state) are of considerable...

Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true as well: deep moral-political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical...

Philippe Steiner, Professor of Sociology at Paris-Sorbonne University, was interviewed by Chris Swader, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics. This interview was conducted during the international conference “Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet...