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/Voting-Number-or-Reason https://booksandideas.net/Voting-Number-or-Reason 2013-10-25T07:30:00Z text/html en Didier Mineur Philosophy democracy elections homo œconomicus decision-making Institut du monde contemporain <p>Should politics be left to the people or to specialists? In 2010, <i>Raison Publique</i>, a French journal dedicated to the arts, politics and society published an issue devoted to the notion of collective wisdom, defending the competence of majorities and justifying democracy's greater rationality. Confronting American political sociology to French political science, issue 12 of <i>Raison Publique</i> shows different approaches to democracy.</p>