A local public goods game in weighted and directed networks is analyzed. Individual efforts are imperfect substitutes, players' preferences are heterogeneous and local externalities are non-uniform and asymmetric. Sufficient conditions under which the game admits a unique equilibrium are...

La vita di Polanyi fu effettivamente segnata dalle vicende che sconvol sero il mondo, tra la fine del XIX secolo (era nato nel 1886) e la prima metà del XX. Le sue tre (o quattro, come vedremo) emigrazioni dipesero, direttamente o indirettamente, motivi politici...

It is difficult to speak about value creation by simply staying in the field of the measure without taking into account the existence of a really political dimension for business activities

Le séminaire "Contradictions et dynamique des organisations" CONDOR, a été créé en janvier 1989, avec l'appui du CRG-Ecole polytechnique et de l'ESSEC. Cette création constituait la première étape d'un projet visant à activer le développement d'un milieu scientifique de spécialistes...

Les travaux de Polanyi et Veblen permettent de comprendre quelques mécanismes du Capital comme imago. Ils s'inscrivent ainsi contre les théories économiques libérales les plus modernes appliquées à l'histoire, complexes théoriques qui participent de la projection d'un Capital idéal dans...

This article explores the role of trend shocks in explaining the specificities of business cycles in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using the methodology introduced by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) [Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend Journal of Political Economy 115(1)]....

A firm which sells its product in a free competition market where the exchange price remains stationary, determines the quantity of goods to be produced equaling marginal cost to marginal revenues. In this paper we consider the more general case of markets with price instabilities. To this aim...

Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme...

This paper analyses both the recent transformations of capitalism in Latin America and the popular resistances of mass movements and class organizations. The revolutionary progresses observed on this continent are also examined, in particular the failure of the FTAA, the opening of the ALBA, the...

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend...