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...

In this paper, we examine the representations of money by three major political philosophers, namely Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. These authors had a major impact on the making of Western states, notably through their ways to express the issue of the people’s...

L’œuvre de Maurice Allais est abondante et protéiforme. Elle comporte des travaux d’économie théorique et d’économie appliquée comme des ouvrages de politique économique. Dans les années 1940, il établit rigoureusement les fondements de la théorie microéconomique néo-classique....

Maurice Allais’ work is undoubtedly the most important one among those of the 20th century French economists. It includes both theoretical and applied economic works and economic policy books. In the 1940’s, Maurice Allais rigorously settled the foundations of neoclassical microeconomic...

We are well aware of Walras’ hostility against Dupuit’s concept of surplus. The reasons for this hostility may be primarily psychological or ideological, not to mention Walras’ difficulty to understand the ideas of others. Nevertheless, in the present study, we would ground his hostility...

We show, in contrast with Stiglitz, that an inegalitarian long run equi- librium can emerge in a Solow growth model framework, with linear consumption function. We then interpret this result in line with marxian economics. We extend the results by incorporating some features of the...

The aim of this paper is to show that inequalities of wealth can be necessary conditions to explain the apparition and rise of a capitalistic system. We try to highlight Marx's insights on primitive accumulation. Our dynamic framework is consistent with Roemer's idea of endogenous class...