The question of choice, in Hume's works, lies within the more general framework of the theory of passions. These lead towards desire, aversion and volition, and require reason, as a cognitive faculty, in order to build the set of objects on which our preferences are defined, and to determine its...

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the role of economists in the institutional building of the electric systems in the first part of the twentieth century. It aims at showing how the organization of electricity sector and its regulation were largely the fruits of the economists' works not...

Lynn Stout's paper develops an insightful legal-economic analysis of speculative trading. From one hand, the paper discusses the legal-economic framework of speculation and its recent transformation, making reference to the case of derivatives markets crash (and related financial crisis) of...

Benoit Mandelbrot, mathématicien et savant multidisciplinaire, s'intéressa très tôt dans sa carrière à l'étude statistique des données économiques et financières et fut à l'origine de nombreuses idées importantes dans la modélisation statistique des risques financiers, sujet qui le...

In this article, we specify the different approaches followed by the economists and the financial economists in order to use chaos theory. We explain the main difference using this theory with other research domains like the mathematics and the physics. Finally, we present tools necessary for...

L'économie n'est-elle pas allée trop loin ? Connaissance à la fois scientifique et capable d'orienter l'action, à la fois mathématisée et traitant du social, mêlant faits et valeurs, n'est-elle pas parvenue à dissiper tous les paradoxes de la volonté et de la représentation, et à...