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Managing grasslands biodiversity at a landscape level to foster ecosystem services in intensive cereal systems: from ecological knowledge to collective action

Bretagnolle, Vincent; Berthet, Elsa - HAL - 2012

Effective solutions for integrating agricultural development and conservation of biodiversity at the landscape scale remain to be identified. We present a case study in an intensively farmed French cereal plain, where the reintroduction of grasslands has been proposed first for conservation...

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Les projets de " flexi-sécurité ": capitalisme " idéal " vs " capitalisme raisonnable " ?

Lavialle, Christophe - HAL - 2012

pensons qu'elle pourrait être avantageusement rapprochée de la vision qui était celle de Commons du capitalisme raisonnable. …

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The Environmental Violence of Volatility

Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2013

supertanker. By globalization, by the increase of savings, and by the technical innovations of the financial markets, its power …

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Au cœur de l'économie politique, la dette - l'approche de J. R. Commons

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 1993

La rupture faite par Commons, bien que peu revendiquée, est fondamentale. L'incertitude et la rareté nécessitent l … travaux de Commons en partant notamment de certaines critiques que celui-ci adresse implicitement à la "Fable du Troc". Son … création et destruction de celle-ci devient une clef essentielle dans le jeu des interdépendances sociales. Mais, pour Commons …

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Polanyi on institutions and money

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 2001

of institutionalist thought founded by economists such as Mitchell, Commons and Veblen are in agreement the reflexions of …

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« Polanyi on institutions and money »

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 2001

The aim of this contribution is two-fold: On the one hand, we wish to show that Polanyi considers institution to be a concept, as is clearly demonstrated by an analysis of the role of money in his work. In this perspectives, it seems relevant to stress the theoretical similarities between some...

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A Curse or a Blessing? Natural Resources in a Multiple Growth Regimes Analysis

Konte, Maty - HAL - 2012

The literature on the impact of an abundance of natural resources on economic performance remains inconclusive. In this paper we consider the possibility that countries may follow different growth regimes, and test the hypothesis that whether natural resources are a curse or a blessing depends...

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On Political Regime Changes in Arab Countries

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2014

, the elite can't avoid the political regime change. She optimally adapts to the overthrow of their political power by … in power forever. The same kind of results are obtained when the elite relies on repression to keep the citizens under …

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The Dynamics of Lobbying under Uncertainty: On Political Liberalization in Arab Countries

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2013

We consider a framework à la Wirl (1994) where political liberalization is the outcome of a lobbying differential game between a conservative elite and a reformist group, the former player pushing against political liberalization in opposition to the latter. In contrast to the benchmark model,...

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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism

Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010

Using mineral resources discoveries in the United States since 1800, we argue that mineral mining fosters individualism. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i) individuals living in states with mineral...

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