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We use the theory of rationalizable choices to study the survival and the extinction of types (or traits) in …
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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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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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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 … idée est que le concept d'«échange de biens» doit s'effacer devant la double réalité de la création et de l'extinction de …
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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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of institutionalist thought founded by economists such as Mitchell, Commons and Veblen are in agreement the reflexions of …
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pensons qu'elle pourrait être avantageusement rapprochée de la vision qui était celle de Commons du capitalisme raisonnable. …
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We deal with the problem of outsourcing the debt for a big investment, according two situations: either the firm outsources both the investment (and the associated debt) and the exploitation to a private consortium, or the firm supports the debt and the investment but outsources the...
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In a recent but well known paper, Reny has proved the existence of Nash equilibria for compact and quasiconcave games, with possibly discontinuous payoff functions. In this paper, we prove that the quasiconcavity assumption in Reny's theorem can be weakened : we introduce a measure allowing to...
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A power system is modeled by an interaction form, the solution of which is called a settlement. By stability we mean the existence of some settlement for any preference profile. Like in other models of power structure, instability is equivalent to the existence of a cycle. Structural properties...
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