If, in the past, personal diaries were safely kept inside drawers, today they are exposed before everyone's eyes on the internet. Even since 1967, Guy Debord believed that the society we live in is a show society. Personal blogs become a form of presenting a show. The dynamics of the blogging...

The model provided by Renald Legendre notices the complexity of a pedagogical situation and clarifies perfectly an approach peculiar to the didactics of languages. In the triangulation object of knowledge - teacher - learner there are multifaceted pedagogical relations. In this game of...

The written press is a continuously evolving organism, playing an important part in spreading the linguistic patterns. It is the privileged support of innovation, because it presents accurate facts, takes over the innovations from the specialized language and meanwhile it creates new words out...

Le processus de la mondialisation, ses paradoxes et ses enjeux, ont revitalisé les polémiques autour du statut et du rôle de l’Etat et les ont posées avec une grande acuité dans la littérature et les discours politico-économiques. Tandis que certains y voient une récusation des...

" Switzerland is the growth laggard in the industrial world " - this dismal view has become part and parcel of today's conventional wisdom in Switzerland and elsewhere. We show it to be but partially true : accurate when judged by the trend growth rate of officially recorded real GDPs in...

This paper analyses the determinants of the investment decision by focusing on the firms subjective judgments about the impact of some economic factors. This work uses data from the INSEEs business surveys on investment in the industry, over the period 1991-2002. In October, these data contain...

We consider a pure exchange financial economy, where agents observe private information signals, form private anticipations and face an "exogenous uncertainty" on the future state, and an "endogenous uncertainty", on the future prices. At a sequential equilibrium, all agents expect the "true"...