After having explained why economics introduced utility functions and later the axioms about behaviour in a risky environment, the paper examines the interest for microeco-nomics of the concept of bounded rationality. It starts from a simple model of the labour market on which agents scarch and...

[eng] This article intends to give a concise intermediate and long term view of the world economy. The author first states the recent major changes in the industrialized societies (an international economic system becoming more and more multipolar and interdépendant, a strengthening of the...

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium...