De bouche à oreille

Ce premier dossier aborde le thème de la transmission de la musique, processus souvent ébranlé dans ses fondements mêmes par les transformations radicales de l'environnement socio-culturel. Dans la multiplicité de ses modalités, cette transmission met en évidence des méthodes d'apprentissage qui sont en soi révélatrices des structures sociales propres à chaque culture. Dans ce premier volume également, un hommage est rendu à l'ethnomusicologue français Pierre Sallée, récemment décédé. Les deux entretiens qui lui font suite présentent deux personnalités marquantes de l'ethnomusicologie: l'africaniste Gilbert Rouget et le musicien japonais Tomiyama Seikin, maître du shamisen. Enfin, une rubrique permanente est réserevée aux comptes rendus de publications récentes

Bonds and Brands: Foundations of Sovereign Debt Markets, 1820–1830

How does sovereign debt emerge? In the early nineteenth century, intermediaries' market power and prestige served to overcome information asymmetries. Relying on insights from finance theory, we argue that capitalists turned to intermediaries' reputations to guide their investment strategies. Intermediaries could in turn commit or else they would lose market share. This sustained the development of sovereign debt. This new perspective is backed by archival evidence and empirical data, and it suggests why strong but undemocratic states could borrow

100 questions: identifying research priorities for poverty prevention and reduction

Reducing poverty is important for those affected, for society and the economy. Poverty remains entrenched in the UK, despite considerable research efforts to understand its causes and possible solutions. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge, ran a democratic, transparent, consensual exercise involving 45 participants from government, non-governmental organisations, academia and research to identify 100 important research questions that, if answered, would help to reduce or prevent poverty. The list includes questions across a number of important themes, including attitudes, education, family, employment, heath, wellbeing, inclusion, markets, housing, taxes, inequality and power