The application of marginalist instruments for understanding the behaviour of Southern individuals has always met numerous oppositions. According to them, the rationality claimed by the neo_classical theory is not convenient for studying these non_western societies and the underlying...

The renewal of economic household theory (collective models and consumer-producerhousehold models) recalls into question the initial simplism of the traditional consumer theory. In order to analyse households, it is nowadays necessary to take their intrinsic of double agent nature into account,...