This symposium is part of a recent and very dynamic renewal of research on the State in economics involving a critical examination of two dominant postulates of the discipline:
The assumption of an apolitical State or a benevolent dictatorship which pursues no private interest maximizing the general interest.
The assumption of “soft trade”, i.e. the exclusion of social conflicts, inter-state and intra-state wars in the presence of markets.
Our discussions aim …[Lire la suite]