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SPEAKER :
Arnaud Orain (Institut d'Études Européennes de l'Université Paris 8)
"The "Law System" (1717-1720) or the temptation of the economic Leviathan
At the crossroads of utopias, economic ideas and colonial dreams developed since the end of the 17th century, the famous experiment known as the "Law System" (1717-1720) set up in France under the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans cannot be summed up as a financial experiment that ended in the failure of banknotes and speculative drift. The incredible ambition of the "System" was to establish almost total control of economic activity by the state apparatus. Thanks to intense propaganda, this great Leviathan was to radically alter the kingdom's social organisation and respond to the worrying rise of liberalism.
Please note that academic seminars will be held online.
