The use of concepts and methods from modern economic analysis makes it possible to enrich historical research by providing, in the case of eighteenth-century Lille, precise answers to such essential questions as the impact of the budgetary and fiscal policies adopted by municipal officials.

First book in French on the history of banking supervision and internal control, an essential tool of banking regulation.

Understanding why a product is clearly identified, distinct from others and recognized for its specific qualities is a key question for figuring out economy: reputation is the cornerstone of this process.

The structuring of legal and medical activities in Europe since the 18th century has so far been insufficiently studied jointly, from the point of view of their professionalization and territorial registration.

Over eighty contributors human and social scientists (law, economics, management, history, political science, sociology) have worked together to highlight the main accounting concepts and terms coming from the past.

With her research into the archives of the Chambre des comptes de Lille, one of the most prestigious archives in the North of France, Federica Veratelli casts new light on the manner by which the Renaissance art of Italy swept into Flanders after the death of Charles the Bold in 1477. Because of their influence in the world of finances, the...