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Economist Frank H. Knight (1885--1972) is commonly credited with defining the distinction between decisions under ``risk'' (known chance) and decisions under ``uncertainty'' (unmeasurable probability) in his 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. A closer reading of Knight (1921) reveals a host...
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This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...
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Présentation de l'oeuvre de James March.
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L’économie et les sciences sociales utilisent fréquemment la notion de rationalité, les travaux
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Il n'y a rien de nouveau à appliquer le concept d'artificialité aux organisations, pourtant peu de théoriciens ont suivis Herbert Simon qui dès le début des années 1940 soulignait que les firmes pouvaient être considérées comme des artefacts. Le présent article se propose de remédier...
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Dès lors que l'on s'intéresse aux comportements individuels et que l'on adopte implicitement une démarche d'individualisme méthodologique, le recours à une hypothèse de rationalité individuelle est nécessaire. A côté de l'hypothèse traditionnelle de rationalité dite "substantielle"...
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In repeated-round auction mechanisms with endogenous market-clearing prices, i.e. when prices depend on submitted bids, the assumption of independent private values that underlines the property of incentive-compatibility is to be brought into question; even if these mechanisms provide active...
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This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...
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