This essay mainly concerns the foundation of a method of inquiry appropriate to the study of social reality. It starts from a criticism of Boudon-Weber's cognitivist method, the lacks of which seem particularly qualified for underlining the methodologic difficulties afflicting social thought....

A normative balance mathematical model for regional economy contains a lot of unspecified parameters which are not defined directly by the data of economic statistics. Only confidence intervals for the unknown parameters can be computed from the statistical data. A method for estimation of the...

We often present data bank building (output-data calculation) as an only quantitative work. We think that economist should consider the context where his input-data were built, before to use them in his own data bank (we suggest to make an institutional and a bibliometric analysis of the...

In the last couple of decades, production processes have been characterized by their fragmentation, which crosses the borders of countries more and more. This coincides with the common viewpoint that products and services are now made in global value chains and that ‘trade in value added’...

In this article, an approach to the ecological footprint becomes from a microeconomic perspective, speci¯cally from the consumer traditional theory. It is revealed how the consumption of goods and services redound in the consumption of natural resources and provoke a decrease in the wellbeing...

The objective of this paper is to estimate and analyze the level of synergetic interactions and overflow of production multiplier effect of the sectors between the five regions (South, Southwest, Center west, North and Northwest) and the Rest of Brazil, using estimated input-output...

Regional economic, demographic, and climatic data are used to analyze residential electricity demand in the United States. Results indicate that electricity is an inferior good for households in the United States. This confirms earlier research compiled using data for less geographically...

Commercial electricity usage exceeds that of industrial usage and is almost as large as residential electricity consumption in the United States. In this study, regional economic, demographic, and climatic data are used to analyze commercial electricity demand in the United States. Results...

This paper analyses the current state and trends in Australia’s foreign economic relations with respect to the economic rise of Asia. Starting from an evolutionary view of Australia’s integration into the global economy, the consequences of the rise in the terms of trade are analysed....

This paper analyses the current state and trends in Australia’s foreign economic relations with respect to the economic rise of Asia. Starting from an evolutionary view of Australia’s integration into the global economy, the consequences of the rise in the terms of trade are analysed....