[fre] Nous proposons, dans cet article, de suivre pas à pas la démonstration originelle de la règle de Ramsey. Cette étude révèle paradoxalement une introduction prudente du calcul des variations, qui nous semble révélatrice tant des ambitions de Ramsey que de sa position atypique à...

This paper reconsiders Frank Ramsey's essay on subjective probability (1926) as a consistent way to articulate logic, rationality and knowledge. The first part of the essay builds an axiomatic theory of subjective probability based on 'formal logic', defining rationality as choice-consistency....

We aim at studying the original demonstration of the Ramsey Rule. This investigation shows that the introduction of the calculus of variations paradoxically remains cautious and reveals the very aims of Ramsey as well as his peculiar situation in the Cambridgian university scene. Classification...

Before his major 1870s economic writings, William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865 his first important book entitled The Coal Question. Jevons displays an interest for the problem of resource depletion, and some opportunism linked to the treatment of a subject in vogue at the time. The Coal Question...

<italic>As the thirteenth book of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series</italic>, Germinal <italic>looks like a precise painting of the 19</italic>