La « socialisation » de la production d’énergie est nécessaire pour démocratiser l’économie et réduire les inégalités, estime le chercheur Lucas Chancel dans un nouvel essai d’histoire globale de l’én...

Spécialiste du patronat, le sociologue Michel Offerlé revient sur les profondes divergences qui le traversent à l’égard de la fiscalité, de la politique mais aussi de leur représentation, entre grands...

The starkly different paths of economic and institutional development followed by China and the West is often attributed largely to the Industrial Revolution. This column argues that institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths well before the onset of the Industrial Revolution, but the role they played was mediated by a critical difference between the two civilisations: the nature of their prevalent social organisations. A key factor behind China’s remarkable economic resurgence has been its capacity to adapt traditional institutions and cultural practices to the needs of a modern economy.

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