The article studies the conceptions of causality encountered in macroeconometrics. From an empiricist standpoint, it is natural to privilege measurements of phenomenal associations, spread over a period of time, between series of data. This method has made a major comeback since the 1970s,...

Operations research (OR) is basically concerned with the relationship between scientific modelling and the application of models in social contexts and social practice. This problematic is also central in core domains of the management sciences (MS). At the level of the relevance criteria for...

[fre] From efficiency to normativeness. . This article is a study of the legitimacy cf prescriptions in the fields of collective choices and resource allocation, when they are based on the economic norms of efficiency. It is argued that, for all the intuitive appeal of these norms, their...

Dans cet article, l’enquête porte sur la démarche de Vilfredo Pareto en tant que théoricien du choix rationnel qui se refuse à en tirer des leçons contractualistes. On examine le cas symétrique d’un théoricien tel que Jean-Jacques Rousseau, habituellement donné (par David Gauthier en...