The nation of economists. Economics in the face of public power (twentieth to twenty-first centuries) Vol. 2 No 134, 2021/2 - pagesPages 3 to 4EditorialPages 7 to 32The reform, the costing, its model, and dataBy Franck Bessis, Paul CottonPages 33 to 58“The French Minister of Budget raises more ideas than taxes.” Two literary prizes for economic books under the “high patronage” of the French Ministry for the Economy and FinanceBy Jean-Michel ChahsichePages 59 to 83Think tanks in France, the key places for interdependencies between economists and ruling elites in policy planningBy Catherine CometPages 85 to 107From “fairness” to “capabilities.” Some remarks on the relationship between ideas and public policiesBy Mathieu HauchecornePages 109 to 128Capitalism under the pandemic. Between cyclical disruption and a structural deepening of the neoliberal logicBy Isabelle Gouarné, Mathieu Hauchecorne, Agnès Labrousse, Emmanuel Monneau, Antoine VionPages 129 to 137Toward a global historical sociology of the rise of economists to the top of the national treeBy Frédéric LebaronPages 141 to 165“From the classic scouts’ game” to… “Now it’s for real.” Initiation to activism in groups sparked by the La Manif pour tous movementBy Marie BalasPages 169 to 193Sociological collapse or the moral panic of a sociologistBy Jean-Michel Hupé, Jérôme Lamy, Arnaud Saint-Martin