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...

Pour de nombreux Africains, l'eau n'est pas seulement la source de la vie, mais aussi un moyen de purification et un centre de régénération. Les rituels et les cultes de l'eau, tels que «Mami Wata», conduisent leurs adeptes à la libération du corps et de l'esprit. Mais les rites...

Ce papier s’appuie sur des théories de cognition numérique pour étudier les erreurs de rappel de prix faites par les enfants. L’objectif est, entre autre, de souligner les caractéristiques du prix qui sont sources d’erreurs et d’analyser la structure même de ces erreurs afin de...

Les relations de coopération inter entreprises ont connu un essor important depuis les années 1990. Pourtant, les partenaires et concurrents dans le partage des fruits de leur coopération, peinent à maintenir des relations de long terme. La littérature insiste donc sur la nécessité de...

This paper has two aims. Firstly, it has a pedagogical object : it talks about the theoretical controversies about value, relation between value, accumulation of capital and economic development. The Solow's model of growth, its criticism from Cambridge and the expression of production prices,...

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.