February 2009 - The mental toolbox of players in the economy

Coordonné par  Jean-Claude DUMAS,

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Issue editor: Pierre Couveinhes,

Rédacteur en chef des Annales des Mines

Drawing researchers in management and economic historians closer together

Claude RIVELINE

Ecole des mines de Paris

The mental tools of money-changers in France during the late Middle Ages

Yves COATIVY
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique UMR 6038

To each, his own vision of business: Traders by sea and by land (Brittany—Castile—Andalusia, 16th century)

Jean-Philippe PRIOTTI
FRAMESPA-UMR 5163
Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail
CRHAEL, Université du Littoral

Goldsmiths, jewelers and the appraisal of jewelry in the Holy Roman Empire during the early 17th century: The rise of a specialized business and its organization

Vincent DEMONT
Université Paris VII

Nahrung, guilds and the market in 17th- and 18th-century Germany: The debate and new light from historiography

Guillaume GARNER
Mission historique française en Allemagne

Trade in reality and in business mentalities: Brittany during the late 18th and early 19th centuries — a contribution to the history of business mentalities (Nantes, Lorient, Brest, Morlaix and Saint-Malo, 1789-1817)

Karine AUDRAN
Université de Bretagne-Sud (Lorient)
Solito-Cehrio

Rejecting machines: Workers’ petitions and conceptions of the economy in France in 1848

François JARRIGE
Université d'Angers

Casa Spalletti sharecropping (1821-1922), a perfect business partnership?

Marie-Lucie ROSSI
Université Paris 1

The economic thought of Eugène Schneider (1846-1851)

Agnès D’ANGIO-BARROS
Centre Rouland-Mousnier Paris IV-Sorbonne

“But what I see with literal horror…”, the confessions of Henri Sieber (1804-1882), a Parisian businessman in the realm of big industry

Sylvie VAILLANT-GABET
Université de Lille III

The banker Armand Gommès: From short-sighted to intellectual blindness

Christophe LASTECOUERES
Université de Bordeaux III

Setting it down in words: The autobiographies of contemporary (very big) businessmen

Catherine VUILLERMOT
Université de Franche-Comté

The statistics of the Austrian Archduke Joseph Rainer in Bohemia (1806)

Fanny BILLOD
Université de Franche-Comté

Productivity, a new indicator of a growing economy (France, 1950s)

Régis BOULAT
Université de Paris XII

The mental toolbox of the French Commission for Verifying the Accounts of Public Firms (1948-1976)

Daniel BERTHEREAU
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne