J. Dewey and J.R. Commons have shared a common intellectual and practical engagement for democracy. This paper contends that the proximity of their analysis is larger than the explicit tribute Commons? conception of social sciences pays to Dewey?s social philosophy. On the basis of a...

In this paper, we review the recent econometric methods related to unit root tests. The central idea is the interac tion between structural breaks and unit roots. We consider the standard Dickey-Fuller test and its modifications that allow under the alternative hypothesis one or multiple...

This article aims to illustrate how artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences may complement economic approaches to learning and coordination. This article proposes a model of individual rationality which microeconomic assumptions are based on the principles of induction, classification and...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money. To define it, we first distinguish between the generic properties of every money and its different and non specifically monetary uses. Then currency is grasped through its three...

Drawing upon the papers of Luc Boltanski, Philippe Mongin and Michael Piore, this text presents the basic elements of a new institutionalist economics. Its main thrust is to work out the relationship between the economy and systems of moral judgment. As such, it would serve as a counterweight to...

The ability of economics to answer more and more diverse questions goes with rising contestations of its relevance. The paper analyses the evolution of the discipline along four perspectives, in contemporary societies where information and knowledge tend to be more specifically valued. The first...

How to understand the frequently conflicting relationships between sociology and economy? Noticing that the accusations which are exchanged from one discipline to the other are most often unconvincing, we will propose the following interpretation: underlying these oppositions one can identify a...

The new governance of official statistics which was recently established in France is a significant progress. In line with international standards, it represents a useful complement to the ethical tradition of French statisticians. In order to restore the necessary trust in official statistics,...

This work is an attempt, first, to outline the basic building blocks of evolutionary theory in economics and, second, to offer a comparative assessment of different strands of literature which call upon evolutionary ideas of some sort. We sketch out what we consider to be the main results...

The volume of scientific literature increases by a few million articles each year. The ?publish or perish? requirement or its ?publish, be cited or perish?, variant accelerates the growth of this collective memory, available in condensed or complete form in specialized databases and web...