[eng] Thierry Deffarges — On the nature and causes of terrorism : A review of the economic literature . This article proposes a critical appraisal of the economic literature devoted to terrorism. On the one hand, contributions, based on standard economic methods and new micro-economy methods,...

[eng] Thierry Deffarges — The cocaine economy : Elements of a quantitative and qualitative analysis.. The cocaine economy is subject to imperfect and incomplete information due to its illegal nature. Besides, analyses of interactions between production and consumption are missing. The purpose...

[eng] Thierry Defarges — The new trade regime and wage disparities in Latin America. . This article analyses the causalities between external liberalisation and the increase of wage disparities in Latin America during the 1990s. The direct effects of the international insertion of these...

This article proposes a critical appraisal of the economic literature devoted to terrorism. On the one hand, contributions, based on standard economic methods and new micro-economy methods, attempt to determine the rationality of a violence whose objectives are political, on the other hand, they...