De « l’inadéquation des temporalités ». Une historiographie environnementale des désindustrialisations
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DO TENSIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA HERALD THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS?
It is now widely recognized that geopolitical tensions disrupt global supply chains, complicating trade flows and increasing the risk associated with logistics operations. The South China Sea, a strategic and disputed region of the world, is a perfect illustration of the stakes involved in these disruptions. Situated between several Asian countries...
Phoenix on Fire: The Cherokee Nation from Reconstruction to Denationalization
This dissertation presents a new political and economic history of the Cherokee Nation following the twin disasters of the Trail of Tears and the U.S. Civil War. I argue that Cherokee nationalists built a viable government in the last third of the nineteenth century, one capable not just of managing settler colonialism but also of profiting from it...
Between State and Democracy: The Historical Political Economy of Local Self-Government
How do weak states build state capacity in the face of resistance from powerful local elites? This dissertation explores the historical struggle of weak states to mobilize resources, including (a) information, (b) human capital, and (c) fiscal revenues, due to the opposition of local landowning elites. During the late eighteenth and nineteenth cent...
El primer auge de la industria de producción cinematográfica en México (1929-1936): una contribución a la historia econó...
Through a business perspective, this article examines the boom experienced by the Mexican film production industry in the early 1930s. It is argued that the boom should be understood within the context of the international transition to sound film, and nationalist fervor in Mexico. Similarly, it is proposed that the boom resulted from the ability o...
Révolution industrielle, industrie 4.0 et idéologie
Après la machine à vapeur, le Taylorisme et le Toyotisme, les robots, les ordinateurs… l’ère est aujourd’hui celle de la digitalisation de l’industrie (ou industrie 4.0, voire d’une quatrième révolution industrielle), de l’intelligence artificielle, de l’internet des objets… La question à laquelle nous allons tenter de répondre dans le cadre de cet...
Linked Capital: Infrastructural Mobilities in Financial Markets, from NASDAQ to SESDAQ (1967-1990)
In social sciences ranging from economics to history, sociology, and geography there is a widespread consensus that information technology has reshaped global finance. There is little agreement, however, on what the effect of information technology has been. Management literature argues information technology democratizes finance by making it more ...
The Scents of Subsistence: Labor, Crisis, and Kinship in Ndzuani’s Commodity Frontier
A primary ingredient in many of the world’s most popular perfumes, ylang-ylang essential oil has long been a staple of the French perfume industry. Few know that the majority of the world’s supply of the coveted essential oil comes from the small Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros, specifically the remote island of Ndzuani. The bulk of Ndzu...
Essays in Development Economics
This dissertation studies economic development in rural areas, past and present. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that around 80% of people experiencing extreme poverty live in rural areas. Understanding the rural policies that have worked historically to foster economic growth—and the political factors that shape these policies in the present---w...
The Political Economy of Chambers of Commerce and Trade Fairs in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Interwar Middle East (1...
This thesis offers a nuanced analysis of state-business relations in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries within a comparative and transnational framework. It challenges the conventional wisdom that emphasizes the dominant role of political elites in economic affairs while downplaying the ...
