This paper deals with the economic impact of transition in Eastern Europe and the CIS. As a whole, the results are surprisingly bad with most of the countries still under the per capita income of the beginning of the transition, ten years after. We put the poor macroeconomic performances of...

The basic theme underlying this chapter is the qualitative change taking place during economic development. Qualitative change is represented by the emergence of new entities, qualitatively different from those that preceded them. Qualitative change gives rise to changes in the composition of...

Developments over the past few years have shown that reforms to address climate change are no less difficult to implement than reforms in other areas, even if the objective of limiting global warming is broadly accepted. In the case of global public goods such as the climate, the political...

Cette recherche analyse un dispositif d'action publique et privée visant à mettre en place en France, sur un site dédié à la génomique et aux biotechnologies, un pôle de recherche et développement économique de niveaux national et international, articulant science et industrie. Elle...