<italic>Recent events are demonstrating the biggest importance of economics in our history. Even if economic history does not take up the same place than in the UK or in the USA, it has been renewed since the 1970s. From a global economic history, dominated by Marxist approaches, economic historians...</italic>

The interwar period constituted a ?golden age? for cartels. A lot of entrepreneurs or politicians considered even cartels as a good way to rebuild the European economy and to resolve the difficult problem of Reparations. It was the case of Louis Loucheur. Big contractor of civil engineering,...

In France, the Public-Private Partnership allowed the conciliation of the social function of public services and public works and the limitation of their cost for each citizen. They were in three sectors: transport, energy and water, during the nineteenth century and the first part of the...

[eng] Abstract : In the years from 1840 to 1939, French civil enginnering contractors stood as world leaders for innovation. To meet the demand, on the French market, of customers with exacting requirements - the Roads and bridges department (Administration des Ponts et chaussées), railway...

[eng] Abstract Immediately following the second world-wide clash, need is enormous. If, throughout western Europe, reconstruction is advancing apace, priorities present tremendous differences : rebuilding cities in Great Britain, reconstructing a capacity for production in France. The United...