This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

What does remain from Alchian and Demsetz' contribution to the theory of the firm ? This paper appraises, from the point of view of the history of economic thought, Alchian and Demsetz' contribution on the theory of the firm. This celebrated contribution can be considered partly as a reply to...

The proposals aiming at reducing or making more flexible job protection are built upon the hypothesis according to which firms are forced to adapt toincreasing uncertainty of demand and activity. Analysing firms' behaviour in French industry, this paper shows that the increase in sub-contracting...

Technical determinism is often presented as a shortcoming of the old neoclassical approach of which the « new theories » are supposed to be ridded. This paper shows that technical determinism is nevertheless still present.

For about twenty years, the notion of authority has been put forward again into the analysis of employment relationship, especially concerning contracts incompleteness. This article has two purposes. First, it aims at giving an assessment of the famous controversy between Coase and...

This article proposes an analysis of the labour process and the division of labour in capitalist production through a reading of Marx and a few others like Babbage and Braverman. The distinction between labour and labour power is used to expose the specificity of the labour process. Cooperation...

Tax cuts create simultaneously a lack of tax receipts and more savings ready to be changed into public bonds and compensate this shortage of tax revenue. A part of tax resources is replaced by borrowing and those who are enjoying tax cuts are also receiving interest from government. The...

Nations ares the forms of political organization that peoples give to themselves. It is common to say that globalisation would lead, for the best, to the end of nations. But history of capitalism shows that this is nonsensical. Globalisation is indeed only a stage in the development of Capital,...

Technical determinism is often presented as a shortcoming of the old neoclassical approach of which the "new theories" are supposed to be ridded. This paper shows that technical determinism is nevertheless still present.

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