The purpose of this study is to analyse the genesis and the evolution of the econom­ ics of shortage in Janos Kornai's writings from 1980 (the date of publication of Economics of Shortage) up to 1996 (the date of publication of the trench edition of The Socialist System, the Political Economy...

This note is about Mathilde Maurel's work on the efficiency of the European regionalism both in the aftermath of the First World War and the demise of the Austro-Hungarian empire on the one hand, and the disintegration of the Soviet bloc after 1989 on the other hand.

This paper discusses different meanings and ambiguities of “neoliberalism” as a concept. Three dimensions of this concept as an economic doctrine, principles of economic policies (Washington Consensus) and a particular type of accumulation regime (post-Fordism) are explored. It also explores...

On the occasion of the release of his latest book (Vahabi 2023), Mehrdad Vahabi, a University Professor and director of CEPN, reflects on several theoretical dimensions of his work during an interview. Firstly, Mehrdad Vahabi revisits his definition of predation, explaining how this concept...

Borrowing from public choice literature, while aristocratic civil wars can be regarded as anarchy, and the monopoly of violence by the state as Leviathan, duel of honor is an orderly anarchy. The sudden or gradual withering of duel of honor as an institution marks the transition to the monopoly...

This paper is among the first to theoretically examine the relevance of price competition in the protection market by focusing on the competition between empires. By distinguishing absolute and differential protection rents, we first define coercive rivalry and price competition among empires...

This paper examines the relevance of price competition in the protection market in order to explain the different modes of empire-building. Our approach unravels the economic rationale of merchant empires which is not explicable with existing theoretical frameworks systematically eluding price...

This paper studies the economic role of Sepah (The Guardians of Revolution) in the Iranian Economy. It discusses the relationship of Sepah and the indeterminate property rights, parastatal sector and the confiscatory regime under the Islamic republic of Iran.

This paper explores Alfred Marshall's concept of Normality and its relevance in understanding time in economic change. Natura non facit saltum or the incremental change of time is compatible with partial equilibrium and reveals a tension between two notions of time: ex ante vision of time and ex...