General introduction -- General introduction -- One: Currency Competition -- I. The theory of currency competition -- II. The history of currency competition -- III. The history of monetary thought on currency competition -- IV. The current debate: The return to gold and the liberalization of...

It is traditionally claimed that the State has three main categories of policies to implement: allocation, distribution and stabilization policies. In the present chapter we will be concerned only with stabilization policies or, more generally, with the role public policies may have in...

P. Salin décrypte la crise actuelle et dénonce les hypocrisies auxquelles son interprétation dominante donne lieu. Il démontre que la crise est le résultat de mauvaises réglementations économiques et monétaires et d'une déficience du capitalisme.