[eng] The Laffer curve ten years after : a tentative critical survey. . It is an « exoteric » version of the Laffer curve which has got a large audience. So have been forgotten the specifie assumptions on which it is based and which determines its pertinence. This article summarizes the mainly...

[fre] Régulation du déficit budgétaire et croissance des dépenses de l'État en France de 1815 à 1939. Une modélisation économétrique simple des régimes fisco-financiers libéraux. . L'article propose une modélisation économétrique annuelle de la régulation du déficit budgétaire...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...

A partir d’une approche interdisciplinaire, l’article cherche à élucider ce qu’on peut appeler la nature de la monnaie. Pour cela, on distingue d’abord les propriétés génériques de toute monnaie et ses usages non spécifiquement monétaires. On présente ensuite les trois formes...

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....

Deux spécialistes reconnus décrivent et analysent le système français de protection sociale, en le situant dans la perspective des trente dernières années et en comparant la situation française à celle des autres membres de l’Union européenne. Les systèmes nationaux sont confrontés...

The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...