Adopting a Bourdieusian perspective, human capital of research team in the paper is understood as the configuration of the active properties of individual team’s members and the distribution of differences of their active properties. The paper describes a research team as an ensemble of social...

Changes in the structure and priorities of research funding and of educational activities accompany changes in the labour market for scientists, including newly induced mobility both on a national and an international level. The paper aims to operationalize the concept of social mobility,...

The controversies in French sociology of labour between 1945 and the early 60s sometimes overlook its place in the period of national reconstruction. As part of the social consensus marking reconstruction sociologists, encouraged by state fonctionnaires, sustained a research agenda perceived as...

The paper presents findings of an explorative research (non-probable sample, N-147), aiming at considering the level of development of meta-components of learning autonomy, (metacognitive abilities, learning strategies and critical thinking), as indicators of higher education teaching quality,...

A number of actions performed by a large number of persons are often characterized by apathy, impulsivity and goal-neglect in contemporary times. While being fully capable of exercising the theoretical reasoning consistent with their desires and beliefs, an increasing number of persons generally...

Adolph Wagner is best known for his principle regarding the increase of state intervention into the economy. Such a principle is characterised by an 'ethical economy' perspective, incorporating some original ideas based on the relationship between the law and political economy. Wagner's theory...

In this contribution I question the expression “economical philosophy” as an association of opposed terms which cannot be defined without referring to each other beforehand. Because of this original intertwining of philosophy and economics, philosophical reason is as bounded as economical...

Orthodox decision theory gives no advice to agents who hold two goods to be incommensurate in value because such agents will have incomplete preferences. According to standard treatments, rationality requires complete preferences, so such agents are irrational. Experience shows, however, that...

This paper explores the meaning of the idea of common good as used in the classical political tradition in order to study its role in the present political economy. It first analyses the received meaning of the term ‘‘common good’’ in economics with the help of a brief sketch of its...