nep-hpe New Economics Papers
on History and Philosophy of Economics
Issue of 2011‒12‒05
four papers chosen by
Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba

  1. Giacomo Becattini and the notion of “Marshallian Industrial Districtâ€. By Joan Trullen
  2. Gouvernance versus gouvernement : six propositions dans le champ du développement durable By Catherine Figuière; Michel Rocca
  3. Déviance ordinaire, innovation et gestion. By Olivier Babeau; Jean-François Chanlat
  4. Survival and long-run dynamics with heterogeneous beliefs under recursive preferences By Jaroslav Borovicka

  1. By: Joan Trullen
    Abstract: Abstract: The notion of “Marshallian Industrial District†proposed by Giacomo Becattini in the first seventies has led a revolution in the local economic analysis around the world. The paper offers a methodological interpretation of the approach adopted by Becattini. The roots are clearly Marshallian. He understands the economy as a complex social science that operates in historical time. But Becattini goes beyond because he proposes a new unity of analysis for the local economic development. The paper identifies similarities and differences between the original concept of “Industrial District†proposed by Marshall and the concept of “Marshallian Industrial District†in the Becattini’s approach. The paper uses the distinction between logical time, real time and historical time. The “Marshallian Industrial District†approach proposes the study of economic process located in specific areas and explained in historical time. Keywords: industrial district, Marshallian industrial district, methodology of economics, Schumpeter’s economic analysis, historical time, economic process. JEL: B31, B41
    Date: 2011–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa11p1168&r=hpe
  2. By: Catherine Figuière (CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - Université Pierre Mendès-France - Grenoble II : EA4625); Michel Rocca (CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - Université Pierre Mendès-France - Grenoble II : EA4625)
    Abstract: Le thème de la gouvernance se caractérise autant par la multiplication des travaux en sciences sociales depuis les années 1990, que par la polysémie du terme. Ce recours immodéré au terme de gouvernance vient le plus souvent entériner, dans une démarche positive implicite, le constat d'une augmentation du pouvoir de nouveaux acteurs issus de la société civile. Il convient désormais de mener un questionnement plus normatif de ce type de "pratiques", en précisant quels sont les modes de coordination qui peuvent être qualifiés de "gouvernance" d'une part, et leur capacité à se substituer à des formes plus anciennes de coordination, d'autre part. Réunissant des acteurs issus des institutions, des marchés et de la société civile, la gouvernance ne sera pas considérée comme un nouveau paradigme ayant pour vocation à se substituer au gouvernement.
    Keywords: gouvernance ; développement durable ; gouvernement ; société civile
    Date: 2011–06–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00641219&r=hpe
  3. By: Olivier Babeau (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - CNRS : UMR7088 - Université Paris Dauphine - Paris IX); Jean-François Chanlat (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - CNRS : UMR7088 - Université Paris Dauphine - Paris IX)
    Abstract: Rappelant l'intérêt pour les sciences de gestion de s'ouvrir aux apports des autres disciplines, cet article propose de montrer de quelle façon les travaux du sociologue Norbert Alter fournissent des apports déterminants pour notre compréhension du fonctionnement de l'organisation, en particulier en ce qui concerne les phénomènes intimement liés d'innovation et de transgression. Les travaux en sociologie de l'innovation de cet auteur établissent avec force le constat, les formes et enfin les enjeux particuliers des pratiques transgressives habituelles en entreprise. Nous proposons la synthèse de ces travaux en montrant ensuite leurs apports spécifiques aux sciences de gestion ainsi que leurs prolongements envisageables.
    Keywords: Transgression; innovation
    Date: 2011
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00641100&r=hpe
  4. By: Jaroslav Borovicka
    Abstract: I study the long-run behavior of a two-agent economy where agents differ in their beliefs and are endowed with homothetic recursive preferences of the Duffie-Epstein-Zin type. When preferences are separable, the economy is dominated in the long run by the agent whose beliefs are relatively more precise, a result consistent with the market selection hypothesis. However, recursive preference specifications lead to equilibria in which both agents survive, or to ones where either agent can dominate the economy with a strictly positive probability. In this respect, the market selection hypothesis is not robust to deviations from separability. I derive analytical conditions for the existence of nondegenerate long-run equilibria, and show that these equilibria exist for plausible parameterizations when risk aversion is larger than the inverse of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, providing a justification for models that combine belief heterogeneity and recursive preferences.
    Keywords: Consumption (Economics)
    Date: 2011
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedhwp:wp-2011-06&r=hpe

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