Present French bankruptcy law is composed of extra-judicial (prevention and mediation) treatment of firms? difficulties and judicial treatment (bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation) of their failures. In the first part, mediation belongs to non-cooperative game theory and to economics of...

According to Merton [1957], the history of science is punctuated by disputes over priority of discovery, but there are no such priority fights in economics. Hands [2006] explains this phenomenon by assuming that economists have no sense of collective moral outrage. We provide a counterexample to...

In Rome, on 16 March 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro. They kept him a prisoner for 55 days, and ultimately killed him. Why did they decide to kill Moro since it appears a posteriori that they did not improve their situation by doing so? Our paper answers this question by building...

[eng] Galiani and the apologue : a bicentennial article . . Galiani's seminal contribution to theoretical and applied economies uses the apologue as a teaching and leaming process. The Delia Moneta includes an original theory of value and equilibrium that is easy of access thanks to rigorous...