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This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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This paper analyses the problems linked to the implementation of the Equal Labour Income Equalisation (ELIE) scheme proposed by Kolm (2005). It successively studies the influence of uncertainty in the knowledge of individual incomes, the impact of equivalence scales and finally the consequences...
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …
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This paper deals with Rousseau's idea of freedom in terms of rationality and deliberation. It gives support to Berlin …'s interpretation of the general will as a rational and objective will but dismisses the idea that Rousseau's theory necessarily leads …
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Our paper sheds light on the reasons for which a rational venture capitalist decides to reallocate his or her portfolio from later to early-stage investment. We explain why, during certain periods, there is a strong correlation between the performance of financial markets and the funds invested...
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rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible …
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science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality (the “creative rationality”). Integrating this kind of … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not … non-respect of demand theory axioms but by the changing of preferences over the period. A logistic regression confirms the …
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In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to …, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper Schumpeter develops thoroughly his own conception of rationality in … indeed interestingly anticipates some important debates concerning the problem of rationality and behavior in economics and …
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