Prelude. From scholasticism to the Enlightenment / Thierry Demals & Gilbert Faccarello -- Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundation of 'Laissez-faire' / Gilbert Faccarello -- John Law and the Mississippi System / Antoin E. Murphy -- Science of trade and 'commerce politique' / Thierry Demals --...

"If there was any question before, there is no longer a question today: inequality, discrimination, poverty, and mobility are prominent national issues. The notion of "The American Dream" has been sold to generations of young Americans as the idea that working hard and following your dreams will...

Keynote papers -- Model-based management tools and systems -- Building information modelling and ontologies -- eServices and SOA for model-driven cooperation in AEC -- Data, information and knowledge management, methods and tools -- Value-driven processes and value-chain management -- Smart...

This report analyses the legislative and institutional framework in France relating to the transparency and integrity of foreign influence activities. It identifies concrete policy measures adapted to the French context to make foreign influence activities more transparent, and to discourage...

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...

This paper aims to describe the social studies of credit developed in France over the past dozen years. We argue that this French sociology of credit, mostly centered on France, can be useful for researchers analyzing other countries, with other institutional particularities, because it proposes...