The present paper, following the philosophical work of Robert Nozick, intends to develop the approach of simplicity in the economic investigation. This purpose contributes to structure a heuristic for projects of investigation that can serve like mark of discussion of grade projects in the...

In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. Claiming “a lifetime relationship...

The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of...

The paper emphasizes the importance of the qualitative element in the behavior of business firms Qualitative effects generated by suitable interpersonal relations can stimulate the state of operations of an organization, beyond the limits often prescribed by fundamental quantitative variables.

One of the main achievements of Herbert A. Simon in organizational theory is analytically evaluating the psychology of individual and collective behavior thus opening the ground for further research D. Kahneman, and T. Schelling. This article provides an assessment of the contributions of...

This paper provides a summary of the results of a survey on French professional economists on 82 general economic questions, classified in 11 areas : competition policies, trade and globalization, education and human capital, social security and redistribution, tax policy, environment, labor...

It is said that economics value individual and economic freedom and from that many hastily conclude that mainstream economics value human rights. The purpose of this paper is to show that on the contrary mainstream economics is fundamentally contradictory with many human rights especially...

Roy Geary was not an economist by training or inclination. His jousts with "literary" economists have been well documented and he seems to have has little time for pure theory either. Of course he worked with economic statistics for most of his life and in his lateryears published extensively on...

We show that the problem of whether two Turing Machines are functionally equivalent is undecidable and explain why this is significant for the theory of repeated play and evolution.

The paper emphasizes the importance of the qualitative element in the behavior of business firms Qualitative effects generated by suitable interpersonal relations can stimulate the state of operations of an organization, beyond the limits often prescribed by fundamental quantitative variables.