https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Economics-An-Experimental-Science https://booksandideas.net/Economics-An-Experimental-Science 2017-03-27T07:00:00Z text/html en Sylvie Thoron Economy rationality homo œconomicus decision-making experimental economics Institut français <p>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 new light on decision-making in situations of strategic interaction.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-General-Interest https://booksandideas.net/The-General-Interest 2016-12-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Philippe Steiner Economy market rationality information regulation Institut français <p>By building markets, distributing information, and developing adapted incentives, modern economic theory claims to lead us to the common good.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Towards-a-Paradigm-Shift-in https://booksandideas.net/Towards-a-Paradigm-Shift-in 2010-06-17T06:04:00Z text/html en Cyril Hédoin Economy finance la suite droite rationality experimental economics behaviour <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Where will the revival of economic theory come from ? From the margins or from the center? In responding to James K. Galbraith's essay, Cyril Hédoin maintains that the center of economics already possesses innovative approaches that enable understanding of phenomena such as the financial crisis.</p> https://booksandideas.net/When-the-lottery-is-fairer-than https://booksandideas.net/When-the-lottery-is-fairer-than 2008-11-26T11:56:54Z text/html en Florent Guénard & Hélène Landemore Carousel Philosophy democracy Video Interviews la suite droite rationality justice chance Text Interviews <p>Jon Elster explains why he has gradually distanced himself from rational choice theories to favour chance and the luck of the draw, less liable to be unjust when deliberation is plainly impossible. Video interview.</p>