This paper suggests that Amartya Sen's conception of rationality could benefit from insights borrowed to John Searle's philosophy of mind. More precisely, I argue that the work of Searle on intentionality provides a relevant conceptual apparatus to strengthen Sen's conceptualization of...

Les décisions de l'Autorité de la concurrence en matière de contentieux ou de concentration sont publiques. Pourtant elles sont, selon le lectorat, soit trop techniques, soit pas assez. En effet, il paraît difficile de soutenir qu'un citoyen, fut-il même chef d'entreprise, soit en mesure de...

This paper investigates the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and both exports and imports from Japan. Using the Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood (PPML) estimator developed by Santos Silva and Tenreyro (2006) to deal with the problem of zero trade flows when estimating...

This paper adds to the growing empirical evidence on the importance of habits in governing human behaviour, and sheds new light on individual inertia in relation to transportation behaviour. An enriched perspective rooted in Veblenian evolutionary economics (VEE) is used to construct a...

Our paper aims at understanding the determinants of households' selective waste sorting behavior. Based on data from an original survey of the French PACA Region of 694 individuals, we first apply polychoric principal components analysis to reduce the number of explanatory variables to a set of...

Numerous theoretical and empirical studies demonstrate a positive correlation between eco-innovation and environmental regulation. However, only few analyses explain how environmental policies drive eco-innovation. This paper attempts to fill this gap by studying eco-innovation-friendly...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policies to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. These policies can generate trade frictions. For example, in the Canadian renewable...

This paper aims at casting light on editorial boards of leading journals in economics. This topic has been largely neglected by economists and sociologists of science, although the crucial role played by editors of prestigious journals in steering the discipline. We start our analysis by mapping...

Cet article explique comment la dynamique de l’équilibre social chez Pareto repose sur le principe de rupture du moment machiavélien. Il resitue ce principe en termes d’équilibre entre virtù et fortuna puis en apprécie la transposition à l’étude de la dynamique de l’équilibre...

Cet article réexamine l'apport de Pellegrino Rossi à la loi de l'offre et de la demande par rapport aux contributions de Say, Ricardo ou Smith. Il montre que Rossi développe une théorie de la valeur originale qui emprunte à la fois à la pensée classique anglaise et à la pensée...