The European continent, under the urge of the events generated by the process of building Europe that has led to an enlargement of the external European Union borders towards the east, undergoes a process of alteration. No matter on which side of the EU border they may be, the citizens of the...

The participation of the social partners to the European governance, lately possessing a great „potential” in democratic terms,should stimulate definitively. The current experience demonstrates that the possibility to point out the benefits, but also the limits of such implication....

Ce chapitre propose une analyse de la valeur des langues dans l'activité professionnelle en mettant l'accent sur l'estimation des différentiels de revenu du travail qui peuvent être attribués aux compétences linguistiques des individus. Une attention particulière est portée aux études...

Ce chapitre offre une revue complète des effets linguistiques sur le commerce et le bien-être. En particulier, sont présentés les enseignements essentiels des travaux économétriques sur le partage d'une langue et les flux commerciaux et faisant ainsi apparaître une variété de sources...

In the last local elections in 2015, the average participation rate was 67%. However, this average masks great disparities, between the municipality El-Fida (25%) and the commune of Tanourdi (93%). Based on a sample of 1538 municipalities, the purpose of this article is to investigate the causes...

An integral part of a multidisciplinary research project on Development Aid and its consequences in Africa, this contribution analyzes the experience of training young out-of-school farmers in the village of Ayou (present-day Commune of Allada, Republic of Benin) as part of a development support...

French abstract: A l’appui du témoignage d’Edmond Malinvaud, cet article avance une triple hypothèse à propos du tournant libéral en France. Premièrement, ce tournant a marqué un retour au libéralisme traditionnel plutôt que l’avènement d’un hypothétique néolibéralisme....

This manual offers a comprehensive overview of key economic theories applied to environmental issues. It covers classical views of nature as a resource, externalities theory, and critiques of the "Tragedy of the Commons" by Hardin and Ostrom. Behavioral economics concepts, such as status quo...

Buddhism, one of the three largest religions in the world, is rich and deep in spirituality and philosophical content. In Asian and Western countries, the economic and managerial aspects of Buddhism have become a subject of renewed interest and many studies. The book What Buddhism can bring to...

This paper defends the idea that Western modernity can be characterized by the rivalry of two institutions, the state and the market, competing for the charge of maintaining security against social violence while both are major sources of violence. It is so because the possibility of violence...