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As marketers love to teach students, differentiation must be the focal point of marketing strategy. But what happens when a firm's competitive set is shared by similar customers, perceived differentiation is weak among rivals, and loyalty is a thing of the past? This was the dilemma the French...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In 'The Methodology of Positive Economics' (1953), Milton Friedman linked the adoption of a falsificationist methodology to the rejection of monopolistic competition as a valid assumption, thus elaborating a point made earlier by George Stigler in 'Monopolistic Competition in Retrospect' (1949)....
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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...
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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’...
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Ce manuel expose les connaissances de base nécessaires en premier cycle de microéconomie avec le souci d'en faciliter l'approche mathématique. Des exercices d'entraînement nécessitant le maniement d'équations ou de graphiques sont proposés après chaque chapitre et corrigés en fin d'ouvrage.
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Les nomenclatures actuelles sont-elles adaptées à l'étude des mutations industrielles ? À cette question, nous répondons que, si les éclairages fournis par les statistiques nationales sont indéniables, la construction des nomenclatures ne permet pas de segmenter les activités de façon...
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