The paper addresses the issue of rethinking the welfare state as a part of a broader national system of social protection (NSSP) and a mode of societal regulation. In order to overcome the theoretical limits of bottom-up comparative analysis of welfare states, one builds a structural model of...

This article analyses the way in which different socio-political configurations have had a significant effect on the economic development of Argentina, Brasil and Mexico. The characteristics of the socio-political coalitions in the three countries are presented, and their imprints on industrial...

This article looks for an understanding and explanation of the responsability of economics in the upsurge and development of the present crisis. It studies the interdependencies between the three streams of ideas which today dominate the departments of economics and finance of universities....

This article adresses the issue of the economic irrationality, political unreasonableness, and social unsustenability of financial globalization. Firstly it tackles the reasons for breaking off with financial globalization that can be inferred from its self-referential functioning which has been...

In this paper, we examine the representations of money by three major political philosophers, namely Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. These authors had a major impact on the making of Western states, notably through their ways to express the issue of the people’s...

Are institutionalism and structuralism compatible or do they confront each other? This article suggests an answer to this question, starting from an analysis of the structuration of these two paradigmatic fields of social sciences. It observes the existence in economics of both structuralist...

Regionalization is a contradictory process meaning both subnational "fragmentation" of territorial states and their supranational "integration" at a larger scale. In this paper federalism, as a division of sovereignty between several orders of government within the same political system, is...

Ce papier cherche à montrer que les problèmes éthiques posés par les pratiques monétaires et financières dans la mondialisation néolibérale ne sauraient être analysés à partir de la seule critique aristotélicienne d’une certaine chrématistique, l’accumulation d’argent comme...