Les crises monétaires sont des moments privilégiés pour analyser le fait monétaire dans toute sa complexité. Dans ces crises, en effet, la monnaie est remise en question et dénaturalisée. Sont ainsi révélés les fondements de l’acceptation des formes monétaires qui ont cours dans...

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...

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 economies of both structuralist...

This work questions the nature of money through the analysis of a complex set of local monetary systems located in Argentina (trueque). It is based on both the reconstitution of the history of the main national trueque networks (meso-level) and the observation of the monetary and financial...

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...