A symposium on state and market regulation

International audienceIn September of 2011, a conference was held in Florence under the auspices of the European University Institute (Global Governance Program) and the University Paris-Dauphine (European School for New-Institutional Economics) on the relationships between legal orders, the organization of states, and economic development. The three following papers draw from this meeting, and though their respective empirical subjects present few obvious links, they indeed explore the interaction between state policies and capabilities, and the legal infrastructures of markets from different perspectives