The idea that the value of the firm is given by its financial capital and its intellectual capital is generally accepted. But, what is changing nowadays is the importance/weight that each one of these two components claims to have regarding the value of the firm – based on the dynamics of the...

The high School of Colombes (France) - Lycée Guy de Maupassant - has organized a conference where some specialists were invited to debate about "L'avenir de l'information économique". This paper reports the main ideas developed during the conference. R.Courbis (GAMA, University Paris 10),...

Our society faces many risks that affect human life. Cost-benefit analysis is a very popular project-evaluation tool for reducing these social risks. The government has to set projects or regulations whose benefits will outweigh costs. It is quite easy to evaluate costs but how to evaluate the...