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The Environmental Violence of Volatility

Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2013

Since the Brundtland report in 1987, at the start of the series of United Nations Conferences on the Environment and Development, the world population has grown by more than it was in the time of Adam Smith. Oil consumption has increased by 40% and the trend is similar for other exhaustible...

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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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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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Lean production: the link between supply chain and sustainable development in an international environment

Ravet, Denise - HAL - 2011

While there could be separate streams of established research on lean production, global supply chain and sustainable development, the idea is to address the intersection of these strategic initiatives. The aim of the mission is to explore the link between sustainable development, global supply...

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Assessing the compliance of a product with an eco-label: from standards to constraints

Ngouna, Raymond Houé; Grabot, Bernard - HAL - 2009

The new awareness of the consumers regarding environmental issues should allow companies to gain a competitive advantage by obtaining eco-labels which certify the low impact of a product on the environment. Getting such label requires to analyse a product according to rules expressed in natural...

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The Prospective Evolution of the Vietnamese Power Sector: The Vulnerability and Externality Analysis

Nguyen, Trinh Hoang Anh - HAL - 2013

With its rapidly increasing power demand of 16% p.a since 1990s along with its limited supply power capacity, how sustainable is Vietnam's electricity development? What are the major factors explaining its performance relative to other Asian countries? To answer these questions, this paper...

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Taking the Well-being of Future Generations Seriously : Do People Contribute More to Intra-temporal or Inter-temporal Public Goods?

Grolleau, Gilles; Sutan, Angela; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2013

We investigate the dynamics of cooperation in public good games when contributions to the public good are immediately redistributed across contributors (intra-temporal transfers) and when contributions to the public good by the current group are transferred over time to a future group...

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