This article revisits the reasons why Leon Walras did not give enough consideration to the economic and social analysis of Adolphe Landry. Both were fervent defenders of socialism and their recommendations for social economics are based on thorough economic analysis. We show that Walras did not...

[fre] L'article fournit une synthèse des politiques environnementales stratégiques établissant une distinction entre actions de court, moyen et long terme. Il spécifie quelles réglementations offrent un avantage stratégique aux firmes domestiques lorsque la concurrence s'effectue par les...

[eng] The subject of this article is to show how Alfred Marshall's work contains an evolutionist description about the localised systems of production. At the same time, he borrows from the theory of partial equilibrium and from the industrial dynamic highlighting concepts such as pecuniary...

[fre] L'objet de cet article est double. Premièrement de rappeler, d'une part, l'origine historique du traitement des externalités afin de resituer la problématique développée par R. Coase dans Problem of social cost [1960], d'autre part, de montrer que le théorème de Coase, formulé en...

By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge amongst economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the...

This article points out the limits of Austrian economics as far as the passage from positive to normative economics is concerned. We propose a comparison with neoclassical economics and discuss the different theoretical solutions adopted by these two schools of thought in their legitimization of...