In 1978, Bourdieu and Saint Martin wrote a famous study, « Le patronat », which was based on a multiple correspondence analysis of French corporate elite. In this paper, we<np pagenum="024"/> go back to their notion of ?field of economic power? and apply their methodology to the 838 executive and...

[eng] Asian crisis and architecture of the international financial and monetary system : a synthesis of the debates in the United-States. One year after its beginning, the Asian crisis, and its consequences on the reform of the international financial and monetary system, remains the object of...

[eng] The Real Equilibrium Exchange Rate: An Introduction by Hervé Joly, Céline Prigent and Nicolas Sobczak . This article presents the two main real equilibrium exchange rate theories. The first approach is based on a two-sector general equilibrium model. It defines the real exchange rate as...

Cet article étudie les dirigeants français des entreprises du CAC 40 à la fin de 2007 en s'intéressant particulièrement aux filières de formation supérieure qu'ils ont suivies. Les anciens élèves des grandes écoles les plus élitistes (Ecole polytechnique, HEC, ENA) continuent de...

[eng] Reunification: The Impact of Migrations on Potential Growth in West Germany . The fall of the Berlin wall and the disappearance of the iron curtain have made massive immigration flows possible into West Germany. The increase in the working population as a result of reunification is...

[fre] L'objet de cet article est de mettre en évidence la complexité des liens entre chômage et taux de change réel. Selon une approche « naïve » une dépréciation du change mininal induit une baisse du chômage conjoncturel. En réalité, il faut également tenir compte de l'incidence...