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Economics: An Experimental Science?

by Sylvie Thoron, 27 March

In economics, the study of behavior has been enriched by a productive dialogue between theory and experiments. Challenging the model of rationality associated with “homo economicus,” it is shedding (...)
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Voting: Number or Reason?

About: H. Landemore et J. Elster dir., "La sagesse collective", Raison publique, Presses de l’Université Paris Sorbonne, 2010.

by Didier Mineur, 25 October 2013

Should politics be left to the people or to specialists? In 2010, Raison Publique, a French journal dedicated to the arts, politics and society published an issue devoted to the notion of (...)
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Challenging the Libertarian Mind

About: Robert H. Frank, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, Princeton.

by Jack Vromen, 12 April 2012

In a book that uses Darwinian insights alongside Adam Smith to change our thinking on economics, Robert H. Frank sets out to convince libertarians that more taxes can mean more growth and more (...)
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The Economic Crisis: Questions and a Few Answers

by Thomas Grillot, 27 December 2011

The economic crisis that has plagued a great part of the world since 2008 remains baffling as ever, all questions and no answers. Why not start by listing the former, and then imagine what the (...)
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The Opacity of Consensus

Decision-making at the Council of the European Union

by Stéphanie Novak, 24 November 2011

At the Council of the European Union, decisions are usually made by consensus. Does this mean that all the countries are of one mind? In fact, disagreements are often concealed, since it is not (...)
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The Nature and Limits of the Majority Principle

by Pasquale Pasquino, 20 April 2011

Constitutional courts are more and more important in our lives. But how can they be legitimate? Pasquale Pasquino shows that political theory cannot ignore the existence of these new bodies, any (...)

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