Cet article analyse la maniere dont le developpement des marches financiers en France au XIXeme siecle a donne naissance a la theorie financiere quantitative moderne. Cette etude montre que le modele de marche aleatoire symetrique avec une distribution normale, construit en 1863 par Jules...

The first section of this paper briefly rehearses Wallace's Darwinian credentials. The second section outlines Wallace's deprecatory views of orthodox political economy. The third section considers the suggestion that Wallace, despite these views, was nevertheless an "individualist". The fourth...

This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self-esteem and his social environment, whether in the workplace, at school, or in personal relationships. A person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own ability (or long-term payoff) in pursuing a task, and will undertake...

The aim of this paper is to set the foundation of an approach of the diffusion-adoption problem of an innovation or a technological standard, based on the building of influence matrixes. This means that agents are to be considered as participating in social networks that provide the support and...

This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital and institutional quality are related to innovation activity and its utilisation. For reasons of data availability, previous studies have included mainly patenting data. This study complements the previous studies by analysing...

Student volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) participated in one of the following oneshot games: a dictator game, an ultimatum game, a trust game, or a prisoner’s dilemma game. We find limited support for the importance of personality type for explaining subjects’ decisions. With...

Analysed is the connection between the different disciplines in social sciences – especially economics, politic science, sociology and law. It is determined that the separate disciplines are inwards oriented and rarely use the results of other social sciences. Five examples of...

This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...

Policy interventions that affect or are mediated through the family typically assume a behavioural response. Policy analyses proceeding from different disciplinary bases may come to quite different conclusions about the effects of policies on families, depending how individuals within families...

Aunque la economía sea una de las ciencias sociales, la relación entre ésta y aquéllas con frecuencia se percibe como problemática. Este ensayo toma como eje algunos trabajos tardíos de Jesús Antonio Bejarano para explorar esa relación. Luego de una presentación de lo que pudiera...