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After sixty years of predominance in the western countries, both the objective of economic growth and its core measure, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have been questioned. It no longer seems consistent to maintain growth as a societal goal and to keep GDP as the major reference for...
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Today, though the need for new indicators of progress is broadly recognized, no consensus has arisen on a successor to GDP. Various – often conflicting – quantification options are observed. On one side, one finds those who want to improve current indicators, by completing or adjusting them,...
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L’approche d’Allais repose sur des concepts et postulats qui sont propres à son auteur et qui portent sur (i) le lien entre la mémoire du passé et l’anticipation du futur, (ii) le concept de temps psychologique, (iii) l’analogie entre l’oubli et l’intérêt, (iv) le concept de...
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Smith advanced a particular view of altruism that should prove to be relevant to the modem literature on the subject. It provided the back-bone of his critique of three different theories. These three theories have been reincarnated in three modem approaches : Robert Axelrod's "egoistic", Gary...
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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen est connu à la fois pour sa contribution essentielle à l'analyse économique traditionnelle et pour sa volonté de fonder une approche bioéconomique. En nous appuyant sur la Méthodologie des Programmes de Recherche Scientifique de Lakatos et sur la réconciliation...
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of modern macroeconomics: its emergence after the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, the heydays of Keynesian …
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Keynes’s General Theory is indeed microfounded in this sense, although no single conclusion can be drawn for Keynesian models …
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present its main results. I start by characteristing Keynes’s programme as consisting of the following four elements : 1 …, coordination failures and imperfect competition) have succeeded in achieving Keynes’s programme. My conclusion is that they all …
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) and Roberts (1987) have fared against ‘Keynes’s programme’. The first part of the paper characterises Keyne’s programme as … involuntary unemployment. In a second part, I claim that no correct assessment of Keynes’s programme can be made without drawing a … study of the three models to conclude that none of them succeed in achieving Keynes ‘ programme in its entirety. In the last …
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The aim of this paper is to examine critically Lucas’ arguments against Keynes’s General Theory and in particular … against Keynes’s concept of involuntary unemployment. It comprises two main parts. In the first, I question Lucas’s claim that … Keynes betrayed the equilibrium discipline by freeing himself from the postulates of optimising behaviour and market clearing …
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