Book
French
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Abstract
The impact of the revolutionary decade on the advent of a capitalist production and trading system was well debated at length, and economic and financial issues have remained largely unaddressed since the 1980s. On the basis of this observation, this collective volume is intended to reflect renewed approaches to grasping the dynamics induced by the Revolution or driven by the Revolution, from the point of view of property regimes, the worlds of work, industry and trading, or currency flows. Varying spatial, temporal and sectoral variations, these dynamics depend not only on the ability of the political authorities to shape a legal framework in line with the expectations and needs of economic actors, in a context strongly marked by war and inflation; they are also the result of individual and collective strategies to circumvent or change these standards, to cope with these constraints, or to exploit new opportunities. Understanding these dynamics as the product of the dialectic between public policies and practices of the players is therefore tantamount to giving back to the ‘composite times’ of the revolutionary economy their undeniable inventiveness as well as their imductible uncertainty.