The introduction of pay for performance (P4P) in healthcare raises a problem for economists: is quality of care soluble in quantities? The quantified standards of quality used in P4P programs come from the results of Evidence based medicine (EBM) and from its main method of research: random...

Our endeavour represents a critical approach that takes into account the analysis, from a critical perspective, of the sphere of economics as it was stated by the scholastic economic literature. We also discuss how the concept of "economics" meets the general scientific criteria. Redefining...

Lawrence R. Klein (1920-2013) played a major role in the construction and in the further dissemination of econometrics from the 1940s. Considered as one the main developers and practitioners of macroeconometrics, Klein's influence is reflected in his application of econometric modelling “to...

The purpose of studying and deepening economic epistemology is to learn how to make economic analysis relevant, i.e. how to explain truthfully the very complex real world. The first section of this paper tries to clarify the concept of truth on historical and philosophical basis as well as to...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader within the framework of the scientific works of Léon-H. Dupriez, leveraging on the contributions gathered in the current issue of Reflets et Perspectives. The survey looks into the different aspects of the publication. The first section is...

This essay does not attempt to discuss the problem of knowledge and science as they are. Starting from a (possible) working hypothesis according to which knowledge is the process through which the man (in different socio-cultural contexts) awards a meaning to the world (real, possible, virtual)...

The issue of innovation in the framework of economic theory is a challenge to which nobody has offered an adequate answer. Economic mainstream does not take into consideration this issue.