Cet article présente un modèle de formation des salaires par négociations décentralisées contraint par le principe d'équité. Cette modélisation pose un problème de viabilité dont l'aboutissement est la caractérisation a posteriori de la convention salariale, ce qui permet de dépasser...

The present paper puts forward a new economic circuit of value, which is a product of Marx’s “period of production” and Keynes’s determination order between investment and savings. It leads to a new definition of profit which excludes any remaining competition between savings and...

This essay mainly concerns the foundation of a method of inquiry appropriate to the study of social reality. It starts from a criticism of Boudon-Weber's cognitivist method, the lacks of which seem particularly qualified for underlining the methodologic difficulties afflicting social thought....

This paper proposes to reconsider the methodology (in the first part of the paper) and the history (in the second part of the paper) of economics on the basis of the constructivist institutionalism practiced at present in political science. In the third part of the paper a project for the...

This paper proposes to reconsider the methodology (in the first part of the paper) and the history (in the second part) of economics on the basis of the constructivist institutionalism. At present orthodox economists are Popperians (post-positivists) and many heterodox economists are advocates...

Developing a model with a switching mechanism, we show how complex dynamics can be generated even though heterogeneity arises among agents with the same trading rules (fundamentalists). We assume that there are two experts which are imitated by other operators. We show that (i) market...