This paper analyzes the way of thinking of the managers when they have to take a decision on a complex situation.

Information on the activity of Mary P. Follet, her theory on business management and her contribution to the understanding of control concept.

This study highlights the need, in both teaching and research, to come back to the original texts of great authors and to situate each “ vision of the world” in a long term historical perspective.

De tous les problèmes conçus par la théorie de la décision, le paradoxe d'Allais est peut-être celui qui aura suscité l'intérêt le plus persistant. La théorie y a consacré assez de travaux techniques remarquables pour qu'il soit désormais possible à l'histoire et à la philosophie...

Résumé d'auteur : <p>" On présente brièvement ici la contribution de Georges-Théodule Guilbaud (1912-2006) aux théories agrégatives contemporaines. Précurseur méconnu, il anticipe la conception algébrique de l'agrégation et la théorie plus récente de l'agrégation des jugements, qui...</p>

A technology with increasing marginal costs produces indivisible units of service. Each agent wants at most one unit of service. We compare two natural mechanisms where users have free access to the technology. In one mechanism, Average Cost, each user pays the same average cost, in the other,...

Extrinsic uncertainty is effective at a competitive equilibrium. This is generically the case if commodities are exchanged indirectly, through the exchange of assets, spot markets are inoperative, while the asset market is incomplete. <p> The structure of payoffs of assets may allow for non -...</p>

When the asset market is incomplete, there typically exist taxes on trades in assets and a redistribution of revenue in the asset market that are Pareto improving. <p> The policy is anonymous, it economizes on complexity, and it results in ex post Pareto optimal allocations, it is publicly...</p>

This paper is an investigation into whether and under which conditions consistency between brand name and logo may positively influence consumer attitudes toward brands through three studies.

This article applies to microeconomics a classic distinction of the philosophy of language, i.e., that between analytical and synthetic propositions.