The paper addresses the issue of rethinking the welfare state as a part of a broader national system of social protection (NSSP) and a mode of societal regulation. In order to overcome the theoretical limits of bottom-up comparative analysis of welfare states, one builds a structural model of...

Deux spécialistes reconnus décrivent et analysent le système français de protection sociale, en le situant dans la perspective des trente dernières années et en comparant la situation française à celle des autres membres de l’Union européenne. Les systèmes nationaux sont confrontés...

The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...

Ce papier cherche à montrer que les problèmes éthiques posés par les pratiques monétaires et financières dans la mondialisation néolibérale ne sauraient être analysés à partir de la seule critique aristotélicienne d’une certaine chrématistique, l’accumulation d’argent comme...

The objective of this article is to identify the monetary plurality in economic theory. We will try to throw light on the way in which theories are attracted towards both unicity and plurality, and more specifically by unification and diversification of money. It should also be noted, in this...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...