The paper is a survey of the Aumann's and Schelling's main contributions to game theory. For Aumann, a distinction is made between his works devoted to cooperative and non cooperative games. As for Schelling, pure coordination games and focal points are underlined on one hand, and the collective...

It is traditionally claimed that the State has three main categories of policies to implement: allocation, distribution and stabilization policies. In the present chapter we will be concerned only with stabilization policies or, more generally, with the role public policies may have in...

The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...

Les institutions déterminent, structurent et stabilisent certains ordres sociaux. Pour autant, elles ne sont pas seulement contraignantes mais constituent aussi une source de possibles permettant aux individus d’agir dans leur environnement. La notion d’institution est ainsi intimement...

Are institutionalism and structuralism compatible or do they confront each other? This article suggests an answer to this question, starting from an analysis of the structuration of these two paradigmatic fields of social sciences. It observes the existence in economies of both structuralist...