The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment and training of elites and economic development. We show that there was a key shift at the turn of the nineteenth century in the way the Western world trained...

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their...

De la paix d’Utrecht à la Révolution, l’empire colonial espagnol a représenté un enjeu considérable pour les économies française et britannique, à la fois comme débouché commercial et comme source de métaux précieux. Cet article envisage, sous l’angle exclusif des exportations,...