The current economic growth and increase in urbanization has led to the adoption of new lifestyles in middle-income countries such as Mexico. Associated with overweight, obesity and chronic diseases, the nutrition transition process reveals important socioeconomic issues. Using panel data from...

The current economic growth and increase in urbanization has led to the adoption of new lifestyles in middle-income countries such as Mexico. Associated with overweight, obesity and chronic diseases, the nutrition transition process reveals important socioeconomic issues. Using panel data from...

This article focuses on the question of how eco-innovation projects can lead to the break-out of an industrial trajectory. Using the example of the Aquitaine wood industry, we question how eco-innovation projects promoted by the ‘competitiveness cluster’ might help to modify that trajectory....

This paper deals with the questions of how network proximity influences the structure of inter-regional collaborations and how it interacts with geography. I first introduce a new, theoretically grounded measure of inter-regional network proximity. Then, I use data on European scientific...

The article asserts that the efficiency of a collective action depends on two factors. First, the variation of the congestion cost according to the size and the membership structure defines equilibrium access conditions. Second, individual calculus and optimum perception are influenced by the...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the influence of social class on nutrition knowledge and food preferences among Chinese urban adults with an emphasis on the middle class. The empirical investigations conducted as part of this research are based on data from the China Health and...

The paper aims to put into perspective Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s bioeconomics and Serge Latouche’s degrowth approaches. In particular, we analyse the foundations of these approaches such as they have been put forward by those two economists. If the cross-reading of their work shows both...

Innovative public procurement has been increasingly considered as a form of public support to innovative activities from both scholars and policy makers. Economic historians suggested an even more fundamental role for procurement in setting the pace of technological change, reporting how...

This paper investigates the role played by cooperation for the sustainable harvesting of an ecosystem. To achieve this, a bio-economic model based on a multi-species Gompertz dynamics with interspecific relationships and multi-agent catches is considered. A comparison between the non...

A stubborn myth presents this Act as a conspiracy, allegedly giving the Banque de France solid independence and stymieing any subsequent allegiance to the Government. The State would have been forced to turn to the markets for financing, leading to an increase in the public debt. For the far...