The purpose of this paper is to reappraise Montesquieu’s thinkings in economy. To Joseph Schumpeter his economic is insignificant - without originality force, or scholarship. According to John-Maynard Keynes, Montesquieu was the real French equivalent of Adam Smith, the greatest of French...

Le « libéralisme » justifie le nouveau mercantilisme des pays industriels. L’objectif est d’assurer à ces pays le contrôle des marchés mondiaux. Les programmes d’assainissement appliqués aux pays en développement révèlent que la mise en conformité des économies fragile avec les...

Les mesures de restructuration de la dette publique mises en œuvre par l’Angleterre lors de la révolution financière Britannique consistaient à en améliorer la liquidité. À cet effet, d’une part l’État a cherché à rétablir sa solvabilité en fondant sa dette sur des recettes...

French Abstract: Tout paiement d'intérêt sur un prêt a toujours été condamné comme de l'usure dans le Christianisme et dans l'Islam. Cette condamnation fut imposée par ces deux religions de par leur autorité, sans justification aucune. Malgré tout, elle a inspiré théologiens et...

We analyze a series of macroeconometric models developed in the years of high theory by Marschak, Frisch and Leontief. These models share an explanation of growth, cycles and fluctuations (“economic change”) based on the analysis of the circulation of capital goods among producers. They...

This book tells the story of a largely forgotten enterprise: that of the International Scientific Committee on Price History. If this endeavour can nevertheless still be of interest today, it is not only because failures offer insights into social dynamics as well as successes do ; nor is it...

The role of the minimum wage as « standard indicator » of public employment policies made a lot of controversy in the literature. The last few years, the issue renewed interest in the distributions offset angle, widening inequality gap and the emergence of insecurity in the workplace....

Since the beginning of the 1970s, the questions related to ecology come in the forefront and progressively led to the adoption of the concept of sustainable development, which now appears to be a new world-wide objective. We argue that numerous writings of Keynes contain the premises of such a...

The objective of this paper, which synthesizes various researches, is twofold. First, starting from empirical studies, we show that development policies implemented since the beginning of the international debt crisis of 1982 led to a failure, showing that the Washington consensus based approach...