By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge amongst economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the...

Our contribution aims at revealing the terms of a confrontation between Austrian and Institutional schools concerning the nature and the role of markets. Such an approach is justified by, on the one hand, the characteristics shared by both theoretical traditions and on the other by the fact that...

J. Dewey and J.R. Commons have shared a common intellectual and practical engagement for democracy. This paper contends that the proximity of their analysis is larger than the explicit tribute Commons? conception of social sciences pays to Dewey?s social philosophy. On the basis of a...

Nous mettons en avant les proximités fortes de Dewey et Commons sur leur philosophie sociale, leur éthique démocratique et leur visée réformiste ; ces proximités étant ancrées dans la conception de l'enquête sociale portée par le pragmatisme de Dewey dans laquelle Commons se place....

The purpose of this paper is a veblenian reinterpretation of contemporary theories of the firm and of their contributions to a better understanding of the so called knowledge-based economies. Within such economies, the role of knowledge and immaterial assets, firm governance and the relation...