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Reassessing Enlightenment Economics

About: Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy. Harvard University Press

by Michael Kwass, 25 March

Resurrecting the life of John Cary’s Essay on the State of England, a book which travelled all over Europe throughout the 18th century, S.A. Reinert challenges our understanding of Enlightenment (...)

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Choosing Confucianism: Departing from the Liberal Framework

An Interview with Daniel A. Bell

by Emilie Frenkiel, 10 September 2012

Recounting his itinerary from research on Communitarianism to the adoption of Confucian values, political philosopher Daniel A. Bell advocates thinking of cities as representing different social (...)

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Thinking Global

by Thomas Grillot, 19 August 2012

Historians, sociologists, and social scientists in general have long tried to “think big” and “global.” The rise of Asia in the world economy has stimulated anew this attraction for the macro-level. (...)

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Are Asian Economies Converging Towards American Capitalism?

About: Lechevalier, La Grande transformation du capitalisme japonais, Sciences Po, 2011 and Uemura & Isogai, Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, 2011

by Bernard Thomann & translated by John Zvesper, 23 May 2012

Should East Asia’s economic takeoff and the new hegemony of capitalism in that region be interpreted as parts of a convergence towards a global model based on Anglosphere economic liberalism, or (...)

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Reconstructing Citizenship for the Twenty-first Century

An interview with Bruce Ackerman

by Thomas Grillot & Jean-Claude Monod, 5 March 2012

A world-famous legal scholar, Bruce Ackerman wants to reinvigorate citizenship in today’s democracies. Here, he reexamines the intellectual foundations of his work, and some of the pragmatic (...)

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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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Moderate Moderns

About: D. Mahoney, The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order, ISI Books

by John Zvesper, 15 July 2011

Who are the enemies of liberal democracy? Daniel Mahoney identifies them as modern totalitarians of the Left and the Right, but also as its immoderate friends: those who unwisely try to undermine (...)

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The Reception of John Stuart Mill in France

About: John Stuart Mill, Considérations sur le gouvernement représentatif, Gallimard.

by Vincent Guillin & Djamel Souafa & translated by Arthur Goldhammer, 9 May 2011

How did the thought of John Stuart Mill cross the English Channel? Vincent Guillin and Djamel Souafa analyze the reception of Considerations on Representative Government in Second Empire France (...)

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Is a History of Trust Possible?

Remarks on the Historic Imagination of Two Economists

by Nicolas Delalande & translated by Virginia Ricard, 13 April 2011

How can historians measure and analyse the fluctuations of trust and civic feeling? In spite of the remarkable success enjoyed by Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc’s La société de défiance, the book’s (...)

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Frédéric Bastiat, the American Right’s French Inspiration

by Michael C. Behrent, 1 July 2010

There is no small irony in the fact that while many Americans naturally associate “France” with “socialism,” the American right has turned to a French author to denounce what it sees as the (...)

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Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History

Lecture by Nancy Fraser

by Nicolas Duvoux, 25 August 2009

In this lecture, Nancy Fraser situates the feminist’s movement in relation to three moments in the history of capitalism. First, the movement’s beginnings are located in the context of (...)

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Detrivialising democracy: Marcel Gauchet between enchantment and disenchantment

by Blaise Bachofen, 30 April 2008

In L’Avènement de la démocratie (The Advent of Democracy), Marcel Gauchet claims that our democracies are in crisis as a result of modernity’s difficulty in letting go of the religious order. But (...)

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