De tous les problèmes conçus par la théorie de la décision, le paradoxe d'Allais est peut-être celui qui aura suscité l'intérêt le plus persistant. La théorie y a consacré assez de travaux techniques remarquables pour qu'il soit désormais possible à l'histoire et à la philosophie...

Résumé d'auteur : <p>" On présente brièvement ici la contribution de Georges-Théodule Guilbaud (1912-2006) aux théories agrégatives contemporaines. Précurseur méconnu, il anticipe la conception algébrique de l'agrégation et la théorie plus récente de l'agrégation des jugements, qui...</p>

This paper analyzes the way of thinking of the managers when they have to take a decision on a complex situation.

Information on the activity of Mary P. Follet, her theory on business management and her contribution to the understanding of control concept.

This study highlights the need, in both teaching and research, to come back to the original texts of great authors and to situate each “ vision of the world” in a long term historical perspective.

In the heart of the Great Crisis, amidst great uncertainty and concerns surrounding the future of capitalism, John Maynard Keynes launched his optimistic prophecy that growth and technological change would allow mankind to solve its economic problem within a century. He envisioned a world where...

A nudge is a non-coercive paternalistic intervention that attempts to improve choices by manipulating the framing of a decision problem. As any paternalism, it faces the difficulty of determining the appropriate welfare criterion. We propose a welfare-theoretic foundation for nudging similar in...

When the asset market is incomplete, there typically exist taxes on trades in assets and a redistribution of revenue in the asset market that are Pareto improving. <p> The policy is anonymous, it economizes on complexity, and it results in ex post Pareto optimal allocations, it is publicly...</p>

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated...