There is very few reliable data on French executive compensations, but compiling all recent disclosures, we find consistent hints proving that stock options are a big issue in this framework. In order to explain how stock option plans arrived to play so important part in executive compensation,...

L'objectif de cet article est de montrer comment les changements insitutionnels modifient les organisations dans le domaine des cooperations recherche publique -industrie. Le modele de la "triple helice" servira de cadre conceptuel a notre analyse. Nous declinerons les concepts utilises par les...

In 1912 Guillermo Subercaseaux (1872-1959), a professor of economics at the University of Chile, published El Papel Moneda, translated into French in 1920 as Le Papier-Monnaie. Subercaseaux's book was reviewed in North-American and European economic journals, and was regarded by Knut Wicksell...

Jean Fourastié introduced a meaningful but neglected theory of economic development in a 1949 book. According to Fourastié, technical progress is stronger in some industries (e.g. light bulb production) than in others (e.g. hairdressing). Meanwhile, consumers' demand is only insatiable for...

Prologue -- Chapter I. Two Scottish Visitors -- Chapter 2.Two Scots in Toulouse -- Chapter 3. Smith and the Calas Affair -- Chapter 4. Smith's Journeys in the Southwest -- Chapter 5. The Languedoc estates and the end of the stay -- Conclusion.

Pour M. Allais, son travail sur les surplus était " l'aboutissement de plus de trente ans de réflexion sur la nature de l'évolution économique en termes réel ". Il estimait qu'il devait permettre de rapprocher l'économie de la 'frontière entre le possible et l'impossible. Allais trouvait...