[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...

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...

This book gathers several important texts and offers a general overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.These texts highlight the specificities of the French monetary approaches and display their main contributions to the understanding of monetary...