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...

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...

La contribution entend reprendre les aspects fondamentaux du mutualisme : le principe démocratique et égalitaire. C’est à l’aune de F.G. Raiffensen et à l’inspiration rurale et chrétienne-sociale de la Rhénanie de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle que nous pensons que les...

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...