Economics serving society

(september 2015) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !

  • Our (represented) World : A Quantum-Like Object ? - François Dubois and Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky. We make our decisions according to our preferences and our vision of the world. Traditional theory says that our vision of the world reflects the information we have. But it is also recognized that human beings have cognitive limits in dealing with information...
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  • Citizens’ Preferences about Voting Rules : Self-Interest, Ideology, and Sincerity - André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, François Poinas and Karine Van der Straeten. What do citizens think of political institutions? It is relatively simple to collect their views on the role of elected officials, on how the government is performing and on the effectiveness of the administration, but to understand how they assess political institutions is more difficult...
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  • Social Preferences in the online laboratory : A randomized Experiment - Jérome Hergueux and Nicolas Jacquemet. Trust is an essential element in the functioning of a market economy. The German sociologist Georg Simmel said this about it: “Without the general trust that people have in each other, society itself would disintegrate (...)” ...
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  • On the emergence of scale-free production networks - Antoine Mandel and Stanislao Gualdi. Scale invariance is the property of some objects or phenomena of having the same appearance independently of the scale of observation. Thus, scale-invariant networks look the same at the micro and macro levels...
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  • Long term care and birth timing - Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere. The provision of care to dependent old people – who by definition are incapable of carrying out themselves actions crucial to the daily life (getting around, washing themselves and the like) – is a major challenge for contemporary societies...
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