Ce texte propose une caractérisation du petit producteur agricole et de sa logique socio-économique. Si investir c’est augmenter le stock de capital, il faut envisager le capital des petits producteurs sous ses différentes formes : le capital humain, social et politique, le capital naturel,...

This paper proposes a characterization of the smallholder and of his socio economical logic. If investing means increase the stock of capital, it is necessary to consider the capital of the small holders according to different aspects: the human, social and political capital, the natural...

Domestic market growth and urbanization encouraged the agricultural and industrial dairy production. This labour-intensive product played a strategic role in the batllist agenda. This paper studies the dairy farm production and dynamics as well as the causes of its stagnation. The public...

Over the past 20 years, I have supported the idea that the state intervention in the economy lays at the root of Romania’s most economic problems. Each and every time, I mentioned Romania as an example of a country that abused the state intervention in all fields from bailouts to...

In the present article, we identify the corporation as a pluri-personal consistent “aggregate”. We treat the shareholders - managers tension as irrelevant, focusing on situations in which the “corporate” actors (the shareholding-managerial aggregate) gain in integrum social privileges,...

Since 1989 and the regionalization of public transports in Belgium, the Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), i.e. the public operator of urban transport in Brussels, has undergone many changes, both structural and organizational. Meanwhile, the company has managed to...

This paper estimes the average effect of the Spanish Training Schools Program on the period needed to find a job. Three methods have been developed: weighting on the propensity score, Heckman’s estimator and propensity score-matching. For the participants in the program, the number of days up...

Because of evidence of causal association between antibiotic use and bacterial resistance, the implementation of national policies has emerged as a interesting tool for controlling and reversing bacterial resistance. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of public policies on antibiotic...

The article presents the experiences of a research group in South Brazil. The main purpose is to describe and reflect upon the process developed by a group which, while following quite independent paths, encounters in participatory action research the methodological basis for carrying out...