Why are expert occupations interesting to study? This book reveals a great deal that is of interest about the current state of three key occupations: lawyers, doctors and management consultants. The conclusions are not always what you might expect. It reveals important differences of fortune...

We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...

This article presents the results of a research sponsored and supported by the INHESJ on the issue of interprofessional collaboration in mental health care in French prisons. It is argued that the current evolutions of mental health professionals practices need to be re-assessed in the light of...

First French book about investigative and forensic accounting. The authors are listed forensic experts, in Canada and France. A normative and practiclal book, well-experienced.

Role, missions, choice, training, know-how, responsibilities, in financial forensic matters in Europe

Our purpose in this paper is to analyse the profile of people involved in accounting standard-setting. The discussion develops three aspects : 1) the opposition between expert and representative standard-setters ; 2) the more and more significant participation of professional standard-setters ;...