For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume's discussion of the determinants of action in the Treatise of Human Nature (1739 - 40), in the Enquiry on Human Understanding (1748) and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757)...

Drawing on passages in Book II of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), in the Dissertation on the Passions (1757), and in some of the Essays (1777), this paper is built upon Hume's distinction between three alternative valuations of...

<title>Abstract</title> The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist -- evidently different from Bentham's or...

[fre] Cet article propose une théorie des entretiens d ’ évaluation alternative à celle d ’ une mesure ex post de la performance lorsque l ’ autonomie se développe , les salaires restant peu flexibles . Notre modèle d ’ agence avec travail en équipe met en évidence que de fortes...

This paper aims at analyzing the relationships between teamwork, autonomy and individual evaluation interviews. Within an agency model with teamwork, we show that a production technology characterized by strong horizontal interdependencies and super-modularity does not ensure coordination within...

Nous explorons d’un point de vue microéconomique, à la fois théoriquement et empiriquement, les liens entre le renouvellement des générations et la dynamique technologique de l’entreprise en tenant compte des asymétries de position qui caractérisent les différentes générations et...

In this paper, we develop a Principal-Agent model with both monetary and non-monetary incentives. We show that the latter are always more efficient, that is Pareto-dominate, monetary incentives. Indeed, we not only show that all what monetary incentives can do, non-monetary incentives can do it...