France has witnessed a significant rise in the recourse to sub-contracting over the last twenty years. However the latter is not to be seen as a response to the supposedly growing instability of the economic environment. It is primarily a further stage in the effective subordination of labour to...

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...

In the last twenty years, through a growing awareness of contractual incompleteness, the concept of authority has regained primacy in the analysis of the employment relationship. This article pursues two goals. First, we assess the famous controversy between Coase and Alchian and Demsetz via an...

Le présent article est organisé en deux sections. Dans la première, une présentation à travers les données de la comptabilité nationale française s'efforce de préciser le rôle des baisses d'impôts dans la dynamique de la dette publique. Dans la seconde section, nous proposons de...

The french theory of regulation has analysed the advent of «new capitalism» in three different ways: the crisis of fordism, the cognitive capitalism and the violence of financial capital. This last hypothesis must be privileged but the authors who refer to it propose some normative...

La sous-traitance vient renouveler la nature des subordinations subies par les salariés. L'apport del'approche historique de la subordination proposée par Marx est de montrer le développement des subordinations formelles puis réelles dans l'histoire du capitalisme. Elle est mobilisée ici...

Le présent article est organisé en deux sections. Dans la première, une présentation à travers les données de la comptabilité nationale française s'efforce de préciser le rôle des baisses d'impôts dans la dynamique de la dette publique. Dans la seconde section, nous proposons de...

The financial crisis has turned into a real economic crisis and then into a public finance crisis: its political and social implications show very obviously, even to the most unaware people, how much economic matters are a social and political phenomenon. Is political economy going to be more...

This paper investigates the relevance of the No-Ponzi game condition for public debt (i.e. the public debt growth rate has to be lower than the real interest rate, a necessary assumption for Ricardian equivalence) and of the transversality condition for the GDP growth rate (i.e. the GDP growth...

This paper investigates the relevance of the No-Ponzi game condition for public debt (i.e. the public debt growth rates has to be lower than the real interest rate, a necessary assumption for Ricardian equivalence) and of the transversality condition for the GDP growth rate (i.e. the GDP growth...