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...

Table of contents IntroductionMagali Dreyfus and Aki SuwaPART 1: NATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF ENERGY GOVERNANCEChapter 1 Searching for alternatives to fossil and fission based energy sources in France Guillaume Dezobry and Magali DreyfusThe European Energy and Climate institutional frameworkAn...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors to the two volumes -- Preface -- 1 Prelude: from scholasticism to the Enlightenment -- 2 Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundations of laissez-faire -- 3 John Law and the Mississippi System -- 4 Science of...

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 --...

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based...