Cette contribution empirique teste les propriétés incitatives et redistributives des tarifs progressifs dans l’eau potable en France. En utilisant un panel de consommateurs collecté dans le cadre d’une expérience naturelle française, nous analysons économétriquement l’impact du passage d’un tarif linéaire à un tarif progressif sur la consommation. ...
While several currents of economic thought still see free competition as the foundation of contemporary capitalism and monopolies either oligopolies as market failures, in this article the hypothesis holds that competition promotes the processes of concentration of production and centralization of capital that give rise to a monopoly stage of capit...
For an eighteenth-century merchant, the ultimate crisis was war; armed conflicts disrupted trade both practically, by subjecting the goods transported to confiscation by the enemy, and financially, by threatening the national and international credit networks and compensation systems on which merchants relied to clear their transactions. This was e...
