This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises. In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of institutional change, or more...

Starting from a definition of the concept of development centered on the satisfaction of the essential needs, health, education, feeding, we show that the present pattern of development, while trying to impose Western values all over the world, prevents developing countries from building their...

Recent contributions to the Variety of capitalism literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to have less accommodating macroeconomic policies than Liberal Market Economies (LMEs). Using Time Series Cross Section data on 16 OECD countries between 1980 and 2002, we test...