This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

The region of Aquitaine, located in south-west of France, has implemented a climate plan for the period 2007-2013 in order to avoid 2 883 ktCO2eq per year for 2013. But this region is an important place of transit’s flow between northern Europe and southern Europe. The share of goods transport...

Using the works of Steven Lukes, John Kenneth Galbraith and Kenneth Boulding, this paper gives a typology of power relationships in economics, a concept that has been “forgotten” by the mainstream. Secondly, this typology is used to evaluate and show the real aim of neo-liberal policies...

Today's most pressing constitutional question is posed by a global economic system whose expansive tendencies seem no longer controllable. The current financial/debt crisis has triggered diverse reactions in the political arena ranging from the reformist ordo-liberal approach followed by France...

Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...

The study examines the economic consequences of regulated disclosure in the banking sector, focusing on its impacts on the stability of banking systems. In a cross-country study of banking systems across 49 countries in the 90s, I find that banking crises are less likely in countries with...

The economic liberalization and globalization process, started in the 90s, brought a strong impact on the Brazilian economy. Between 1988 and 1993, was held an extensive process of liberalization, gradually reducing the degree of protection of local industry. It is in this context that...

The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues. The...

A curious ownership structure is found in Northern Europe – foundations that own <p> and operate business companies. The foundations are non-profit entities, they have no <p> members and no owners, and they cannot be dissolved, but regard it as a goal in itself <p> to run a business. In many cases...</p></p></p>

This paper specifies and interprets those direct relations which exist between the dual concepts of complete controllabil-ity/observability (Kalman, 1960), on the one hand, and the con-cept of the regular technique of production (Schefold, 1971), on the other. Specifically, it shows, first, that...