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Esther Duflo discusses the fact that in social policy one cannot check the big questions, i.e. whether development assistance as an aggregate is helpful, because there is no counterfactual. She then suggests to focus on smaller questions such as what prevents or incentiveses people from immunizing their kids or whether mosquito bednets should be distributed for free. These questions can be answered by using randomized control trials as in the medical sciences. Thus, she argues, by bringing the experimental method to social policy analysis better decisions as to where allocate funds can be made.
Social experiments to fight poverty
Dans cette conférence André Orléan fondateur de l école hétérodoxe de l économie des conventions donne les enjeux d un tournant expérimental des sciences économiques L essor de l économie comportementale des RCT randomized controlled trials et de l analyse économétrique à partir d expériences naturelles histoire économique développement montre …
Le tournant expérimental en économie
Dans cet entretien mené pour la revue Regards Croisés sur l'Économie, Christine Delphy donne des clés pour analyser le travail gratuit des femmes, rendu invisible dans la sphère économique. Le rôle des politiques publiques dans la perpétuation de cette organisation économique est également mis en lumière, ainsi que la difficulté pour les sciences économiques à capturer cette dimension genrée du travail.
L'économie féministe - Entretien avec Christine Delphy
Since Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Price in Economic Sciences in 2002, a new branch of economics gained academic and popular interest. That is, the so-called area of behavioural economics. However, some scholars claim that this new area of economics is not changing much of the mainstream paradigm. Why?
Is Behavioural Economics the New Mainstream?
Thomas Boraud, neurobiologiste, directeur de recherche au CNRS et à l’Institut des maladies neurodégénératives, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux nous expose l'antinomie entre l’Homme comme un animal doué de raisonnement rationnel et sa psychologie au quotidien.
Il introduit sa présentation par des arguments provenant de la biologie et de la théorie de l'évolution pour expliquer en quel sens le concept d'homo œconomicus est dépassé et doit être revu au jour d'aujourd'hui. Il expose les fondements du processus de prise de décision (biais cognitif, capacité cognitive limitée...) pour décrire la part d’aléatoire qui est présente dans ces processus. On y apprend que notre appréhension du réel est largement modelée par nos comportements, eux-mêmes contraints par les circonstances de notre environnement.
Le cerveau entre raison et émotion - Saison 2016-2017 - Conférences en ligne - Ressources - Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
In this blog article Steve Keen elaborates on flawed climate change modelling and mainstream economics forecasts. In specific, he stresses the climate change forecasts of the DICE model (“Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy”) by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner William Nordhaus.
The Cost of Climate Change
A rethinking of the way to fight global poverty and winners of the Swedish Bank Prize for Economics.
Social Experiments to Alleviate Poverty
There are three things one can do in this website - 1. Learn 2. Help Teach 3. Sign up MOOC. This is a semester-long graduate course in Econometrics. This course is intended for graduate students in economics-related fields and more generally in social sciences. The course includes an overview of the models and theory and applications using Stata, R, or SAS
programs. This econometrics class covers about 15 of the most commonly used econometric models in economics, such as linear regression, panel data models, probit and logit models, limited dependent variable models, count data models, time series models, and many more.
Econometrics Academy - Common Econometric Models & Statistical Software
La « décroissance » est-elle souhaitable ? Interview avec Eloi Laurent, économiste, conseiller scientifique à l'OFCE, maître de conférences à Sciences-Po et auteur de “ Sortir de la croissance : mode d’emploi “ (Les Liens qui Libérent, 2019).
Produire moins, compter mieux, aimer plus - Ép. 5/5 - Le capitalisme est-il soluble dans le XXIe siècle ?
Xerfi Canal a reçu Denis Colombi, sociologue, enseignant en sciences économiques et sociales, auteur du blog « une heure de peine » sur l’actualité de la sociologie, dans le cadre de son livre "Où va l’argent des pauvres".
Une interview menée par Adrien de Tricornot.
Où va l'argent des pauvres ?
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen´s text analyzes three main figures in social sciences and the relation between them: the Italian economist Piero Sraffa, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Italian politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci.
Sraffa, Wittgenstein, and Gramsci
Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapely won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on market design back in 2012, but it is a field that is still underrepresented in economics education. All markets have rules, and how these rules are set influence how the market functions.
The economics of legalising cannabis
Très à la mode, l'économie comportementale s'impose peu à peu comme le futur des sciences économiques. Jean-Michel Servet propose dans ce livre, maintenant en accès livre, une mise en perspective critique de cette approche.
L'Economie comportementale en question [ACCES LIBRE]
This Micro-Masters program on Circular Economy looks at the concept and its application from different angles, covering a very wide variety of topics (From Fossil Fuels to Biomass: A Chemistry Perspective; Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Economics and Policies in a Biobased Economy).
It offers a well-rounded, multidisciplinary perspective, using sciences and humanities together for a deeper understanding of the topic. A great start for newbies with Circular Economy!
The access to the course is for free, but you can also apply for full-time on-campus graduate-level programs, be it Wageninged or other universities.
Economics and Policies for a Circular Bio-Economy
Dans cet interview Roger Guesnerie, titulaire de la chaire "Théorie Économique et Organisation Sociale" au Collège de France, donne un point de vue d'économiste néoclassique sur la pertinence de sa propre perspective.
Pourquoi s'intéresser aux raisonnements des économistes ?
Economists like to base their theories on individual decision making. Individuals, the idea goes, have their own interests and preferences, and if we don’t include these in our theory we can’t be sure how people will react to changes in their economic circumstances and policy. While there may be social influences, in an important sense the buck stops with individuals. Understanding how individuals process information to come to decisions about their health, wealth and happiness is crucial. You can count me as someone who thinks that on the whole, this is quite a sensible view.
Decision by Sampling, or ‘Psychologists Reclaim Their Turf’
Dans cet article Robert Boyer dresse une critique très fine de l ouvrage de l économiste Avner Greif Institutions and the path to the modern economy Lessons from medieval trade publié en 2006 S il commence par revenir sur les apports centraux de l ouvrage élaboration d une théorie générale …
Historiens et économistes face à l'émergence des institutions du marché
A remarkable and insightful tribute into the works of late Malawian development economist, Professor Thandika Mkandawire. Must read for anyone looking to broaden their scope of understanding development as it relates to the African continent.
Thandika Mkandawire - A Giant of African Economic Development
This is an introductory level core course in macroeconomics for those expecting to take further courses in economics. It provides a theoretical and applied approach of introductory macroeconomics, with an international perspective and applications to account for the growing importance of the global economy and the rising openness of economies.
Introduction to Macroeconomics
"Revisitons quelques crédos économiques dominants qui prévalaient à la veille de la crise de 2008. On prend alors toute la mesure de la fragilité des dogmes"
5 idées dominantes en économie totalement invalidées par les faits
A travers le regard de Karl Polanyi, Corrine Vercher-Chaptal nous offre son analyse du monde des plateformes alternatives.
Karl Polanyi pour penser le capitalisme aujourd'hui
L'article de Carmen Guy présente les textes pionniers de l'analyse économique des crises. L'autrice montre que l’étude des crises économiques a nécessité dès le début une approche interdisciplinaire, intégrant dans un premier temps l’histoire et la statistique et ensuite la sociologie.
Aux origines de l’analyse économique des crises
After completing the module, participants should have knowledge and understanding about the theory of Critical Political Economy and its basic methods. They should be able to apply central concepts to analyse critical questions regarding the embeddedness of economic relations within broader social, political and ecological relations.
Marxist Political Economy
The lecturer focuses on his own paper The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain analysing the innovation of cryptocurrencies particularly bitcoin and its economic credibility The innovator of cryptocurrency Satoshi Nakamoto incorporated an interesting combination of computer sciences and economics The paper argues the limitations …
The Economics of Cryptocurrencies
Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodox thinking, Geoffrey Hodgson maintains that social institutions play a central and essential role in molding preferences and guiding action: institutions are regarded as enabling action rather than merely providing constraints.
Economics and Institutions
The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics is the first comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It includes 99 entries by 88 authors.
The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics
Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved.
Regression Analysis
Toutes les sociétés humaines ont besoin de justifier leurs inégalités : il faut leur trouver des raisons, faute de quoi c'est l'ensemble de l'édifice politique et social qui menace de s'effondrer. Les idéologies du passé, si on les étudie de près, ne sont à cet égard pas toujours plus folles que celles du présent.
Capital et idéologie
"Heterodox economics can provide a more complete and robust explanation of economic realities than orthodox (or mainstream) economics. Contemporary Issues in Heterodox Economics: Implications for Theory and Policy Action argues that this greater explanatory power gives heterodox economics the ability to illuminate appropriate policy for the major crises of our time, as well as proffer the basis for a more rounded, pluralist approach to economic theory.
Contemporary Issues in Heterodox Economics
This course covers recent advances in behavioral economics by reviewing some of the assumptions made in mainstream economic models, and by discussing how human behavior systematically departs from these assumptions.
Psychology and Economics
In the book 'Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction' Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today.
Decolonizing Economics
Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.
Power and Neoclassical Economics
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