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> https://booksandideas.net/Challenging-the-Libertarian-Mind https://booksandideas.net/Challenging-the-Libertarian-Mind 2012-04-12T11:32:01Z text/html en Jack Vromen Economy competition decision-making darwinism libertarianism <p>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 freedom. Can he succeed?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Economic-Crisis-Questions-and https://booksandideas.net/The-Economic-Crisis-Questions-and 2011-12-27T10:46:35Z text/html en Thomas Grillot finance United States of America European Union Third World crisis decision-making governance <p>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 latter could look like?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Opacity-of-Consensus https://booksandideas.net/The-Opacity-of-Consensus 2011-11-24T08:43:21Z text/html en Stéphanie Novak Politics democracy European Union lobbying decision-making transparency vote Chadoc <p>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 in the interest of most countries to publicize the fact that they have been defeated. Stéphanie Novak describes the various practices that consensus entails and gives an account of the opacity presiding over the exercise of joint sovereignty.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Nature-and-Limits-of-the https://booksandideas.net/The-Nature-and-Limits-of-the 2011-04-20T07:07:00Z text/html en Pasquale Pasquino Politics Carousel Europe decision-making Constitution political theory <p>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 more than it can ignore the limitations of majority decisions.</p>