This paper presents the concept of articulation of modes of production in the works of the german africanist Georg Elwert born in 1947 and died in 2005. After the explanation of concepts of mode of production and articulation of modes of production, the paper analyzes how Professor Georg Elwert...

In the numerical examples used by Marx to study the reproduction of social capital, the economy reaches a steady growth path in only two periods. This surprising outcome has been interpreted by Marx’s readers as a property of a model which excludes any sort of economic crisis. This paper shows...

The aim of this paper is to briefly review the main debates between the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and the Old Institutional Economics (OIE). While the NIE is considered in the literature as essentially orthodox, the OIE’s thesis are mainly heterodox. From a theoretical perspective, (i)...

Cet article tente de montrer que, contrairement à l'analyse néoclassique de la coopérative de travailleurs (ou entreprise autogérée), le comportement de cette dernière ne peut être appréhendé non pas à partir de la seule dimension économique, mais à partir de l'évolution du...

Input-output analysis was a particular way of state intervention. Its success was due to the connection of a theory to a model and to an instrument. It was a tool for science and for action. This articulation of an explanatory, a descriptive and a prescriptive dimension may be understood as an...

In 1918 the Central Statistical Administration (TsSU) was founded with the support of Lenin. Pavel Illich Popov was its first director (1918-1926). TsSU proceeded to the merging and centralization of the former decentralized statistical system of the zemstva (local governments) inherited from...

The goal of this paper is to show that Amartya Sen’s idea can be rooted in the social-liberal paradigm. Combining the respect of an unconditional freedom and the research of a real equality, Sen, thanks to the Capability Approach, proposes a framework for a new theory of justice.

L'opinion publique et les responsables politiques se tournent vers l'économiste lorsque surviennent des évolutions paradoxales et sont démenties les anticipations des agents les mieux informés. Or la théorie économique s'est développée en postulant, au moins à titre méthodologique, la...

French Abstract: La Direction centrale de la statistique soviétique, la TsSOU, est créée en 1918 avec le soutien de Lénine. Pavel Illitch Popov en est le premier directeur (1918-1926). Centralisant le système régional des zemstva hérité du régime tsariste, la TsSOU est le cœur...

Management science is based on the idea of an economic agent who seeks to maximise his personal interest, i.e. the so-called homo economicus. The bodies of academic literature of finance and marketing rely mainly on this fundamental hypothesis. However, recent developments during the last decade...