Scientists, from laughter to tears
The scientist is not just a thinking machine: he laughs, he gets anxious, he fears, he gets angry, he makes
Social sources of institutions
A critique of capitalism and nationalism, Thorstein Veblen’s work focused primarily on the analysis of institutions: their strengths, their weaknesses
An Archaeology of Brexit
What if Brexit was inevitable? A book looks back at the ambivalent relations between the United Kingdom and the rest
Roosevelt, the Supreme Court and Gold
An economist traces the process that led the United States Supreme Court to validate, in February 1935, the repeal of
The names of fame
The artist, through his work, makes a name for himself, but what name? During the Renaissance, he was usually referred
The well-structured thought
Could craftsmanship, which is too much criticized, be a model for intellectual life, but also for reforming contemporary forms of
The century of illustration
What does our visual culture owe to XIXe century? To understand it, art historian Patricia Mainardi goes back well before
Europe of agricultural nations
Created more than thirty years ago in reaction to the common agricultural policy (CAP), the Peasant Confederation has had difficulty
Semantics of migration
Since 2015, the idea of a “migration crisis” has invaded public debates and political discourses, evoking a threat to Europe’s
The scourge of counterfeit medicines
Counterfeit medicines number in the hundreds of millions and wreak havoc on populations. How can we understand that NGOgovernments or