The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...

Economics is erratic, politics is manipulated, but at least science is objective and certain, hence its predictions are reliable. This image of science is inherited from the creators of modern science and the scientific method, a few centuries ago, and runs deep in the minds of most people when...

[fre] Les engagements de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, pris en 1997 à Kyoto, sans être suffisants au regard des menaces de changement climatique, sont déjà à ce point contraignants pour l'Union européenne et les États-Unis qu'ils risqueraient fort d'être reniés...

We consider an economy where successive generations consume two different kinds of services, produced respectively from artificial and natural assets. Technical progress makes it possible to expand the artificial assets, but not the natural ones; on the contrary, the latter may be eroded by a...