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The Multiple Meanings of Revolution

Upheaval, crisis and imponderables

by Jean-Clément Martin & translated by Eric Rosencrantz, 13 May

Though the age of historic upheavals and major political crises seemed to be over, the word “revolution” has made a recent comeback in Georgia, in the Ukraine and in the “Arab Springs” of 2011. (...)

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Why Financial Crises Give Birth to Legends

by Nathan Marcus, 31 August 2012

In our haste to explain away the 2008 crisis, we have tended to put all the blame on bankers and regulators. This simplification, while soothing, might be just as misguided as Germans’ or (...)

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The Politics of Justice

The Aftermath of the Financial Collapse in Iceland

by Valur Ingimundarson, 27 June 2012

The Icelandic crisis was far more than a typical banking crisis. Historian Ingimundarson sees it also as a transitional justice case with features of truth-telling and demands for government (...)

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Quebec: a Democracy in Crisis

An Interview with Christian Nadeau

by Florent Guénard & translated by John Zvesper, 25 June 2012

Negotiations between protesters and the governement have failed: the political crisis ignited in Quebec several weeks ago is far from being over. For Professor Christian Nadeau, of Montreal (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Europe: Another Useless Treaty?

An interview with Renaud Dehousse

by Stéphanie Novak & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 1 May 2012

On March 2012, 25 EU Member States signed a new treaty to increase coordination between economic policies within the Union, something Germany in particular was keen on. Will this allow them to (...)

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The Greek State: Its Past and Future

An interview with Anastassios Anastassiadis

by Nicolas Delalande, 20 March 2012

The Greek crisis is above all a crisis of the Greek state and its legitimacy. One must look back to the nineteenth century to understand its people’s defiance of bureaucrats and the role of (...)

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Getting Employment Going Again

An Interview with Philippe Askenazy

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 10 February 2012

If we want to adjust to the world the crisis has thrust us in, we will have to stop blaming unemployment on the “French Model.” For economist Philippe Askenazy, we need to shift from a vision of (...)

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Protectionism as Internationalist Liberalism

Birth and Spread, 1789-1914

by David Todd & translated by John Zvesper, 17 January 2012

Protectionism does not date from the 1930s; in fact it was invented in the nineteenth century by German, French and American theorists wary of British commercial power. The historian David Todd (...)

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The Economic Crisis: Questions and a Few Answers

by Thomas Grillot, 27 December 2011

The economic crisis that has plagued a great part of the world since 2008 remains baffling as ever, all questions and no answers. Why not start by listing the former, and then imagine what the (...)

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Reviews

Economics: a Cure for Pessimism

About: A. Delaigue et S. Ménia, Nos phobies économiques : ces peurs que l’économiste guérit mieux qu’un psy, Pearson Education.

by Emmanuel Bétry & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 22 December 2011

In a book devoted to economic anxieties in France, two economists well known in the blogosphere try to make their field accessible while conveying its (...)

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Get Yourself Into Debt!

About: L. Hyman, Debtor Nation. The History of America in Red Ink, Princeton University Press.

by Nicolas Delalande, 4 October 2011

The crisis currently affecting the United States is all the more serious when we consider how deep its roots go. The historian Louis Hyman shows how debt lodged itself at the heart of American (...)

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Republican Reflections on the 15-M Movement

by Philip Pettit, 20 September 2011

In its criticism of the democratic deficit in Spain, has the 15M movement (initiated 15 May 2011 in Spain) challenged Philip Pettit’s theory of republicanism which gave its intellectual authority (...)

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Reviews

Shock, What Shock?

About: Reviewed: N. Ferguson, C. Maier, E. Manela and D. Sargent, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, Harvard University Press, 2010

by Martin Albrow, 7 February 2011

Were the 1970s a critical decade in the advance of globalization? This edited volume written by American historians is arguing that globalization is the unplanned outcome of the two oil price (...)

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Guattari’s Relevance

About: F. Guattari, Les années d’hiver (1980-1985), Les Prairies ordinaires.

by Manola Antonioli, 10 December 2009

Les Années d’hiver [“Winter Years”] a volume of articles published between the end of the 1970s and the end of the 1980s, constitutes an interesting entrée into Félix Guattari’s thought: his (...)

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The Global Financial Crisis and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Japan

by Hideaki Miyajima, 12 November 2009

Japan’s experience over the past year is probably more similar to that of Germany, whose rapid economic downturn was caused by a precipitous decline in exports, than to that of the U.S. and (...)

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Which direction for the welfare state?

Legacies of welfare reform in the United States

by Isaac William Martin, 6 March 2009

Isaac Martin gives us an account of the American welfare state, at a time when the current economic crisis seems to pave the way for a new New Deal. According to him, however, it is unlikely that (...)

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October 2008: the return of the State?

Political perspectives on the financial crisis

by Bruno Bernardi, 29 January 2009

The unfolding of the financial crisis and our attempts to keep it in check have spawned a new theme of debate: are we witnessing - to the joy of some and the horror of others - the return of the (...)

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