The article discusses the origins of the U-shaped average cost curve, which is one of the most widely used tools in microeconomic analysis. Its widespread use leads many to consider it as a basic tool, obscuring the fact that the graph of the U-shaped average cost curve is part of a complex...

Since the seminal paper of Ghirardato, it is known that Fubini Theorem for non-additive measures can be available only for functions defined as “slice-comonotonic”. We give different assumptions that provide such Fubini Theorems in the framework of product σ-algebras.

The very diversity of cultures impels the economist to respect a principle of modesty when it comes to specifying the degree of universality to which the science of economics can lay claim. In considering this issue, this paper: a) criticizes the ambition of certain forms of economic thought to...

Hayek’s and Popper’s bibliographies, their biographies, their methodological theses in favor of individualism, their common commitment against historicism, historism and planism, and crossed references in their writings bring us to infer (at least) some intellectual debate between them, or...

Ce rapport fournit un diagnostic sur la relative fragilité du positionnement de la France dans l'économie du savoir et propose des recommandations pour le consolider. Il montre qu'au-delà des secteurs de haute technologie, tous les acteurs économiques et sociaux sont concernés par la...

Le Laboratoire Prospective, Stratégie et Développement Durable (PS2D) de la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de Tunis (Université Tunis El Manar) et le Réseau de chercheurs de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie ‘Analyse Economique et Développement’...