Heterodox Microeconomics http://lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-hme Heterodox Microeconomics 2026-08-24 Towards an Epistemological Revolution: Social and Solidarity Economy through the Lens of Complex Thinking -Theoretical Framework and Empirical Anchoring in the Moroccan Context https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05647086&r=&r=hme This article examines Morocco's Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) through Edgar Morin's complex thinking. Using the principles of dialogics, recursivity, and hologrammatics, it shows how cooperatives, associations, and mutuals balance market and solidarity, create learning loops, and mirror national challenges gender inclusion, ecological transition, and social protection. Findings indicate tangible achievements yet incomplete consolidation: financial dependence, fragmented governance, and weak impact assessment. We propose priority directions a clear legal framework, territorial anchoring, ecological integration, and multidimensional evaluation tools to strengthen territorial resilience and position SSE as a lever for inclusive and sustainable development. El Karkour Elk Mohammed pensée complexe, résilience territoriale, coopératives féminines, gouvernance territoriale Social and solidarity economy, complex thinking, territorial resilience, women's cooperatives, territorial governance, intégration écologique et dispositifs d Économie sociale et solidaire, intégration écologique et dispositifs d Économie sociale et solidaire pensée complexe résilience territoriale coopératives féminines gouvernance territoriale Social and solidarity economy complex thinking territorial resilience women's cooperatives territorial governance, ancrage territorial, gouvernance fragmentée et évaluation lacunaire. Des orientations prioritaires sont proposées : cadre légal 2025-11-14 Can technical progress make us free? On the idea of freedom from labour https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:140236&r=&r=hme This paper explores the idea that technical progress could free humanity from necessity and labour. Taking inspiration from a remark in Arendt's Human Condition, I consider a tension immanent to that idea: the possibility that its realisation requires social transformations that culminate in a world incommensurable with our own and to which our concepts of freedom no longer apply. Drawing on resources from social theory, the philosophy of technology and critical theory, I defend this incommensurability thesis in two steps. I argue, first, that technical progress entails a social dynamic which leads to continuous upward shifts in the level of automation required to free people from work, plausibly extending beyond the sphere of production; second, that this leads the idea of freedom from labour ad absurdum: the widespread automation of human life would render modern concepts of freedom unintelligible. Wasserziehr, Jan technical progress;technology;freedom;freedom from labour;automation;artificial intelligence 2026-07-27 Resilience: Understand Breakdown, Foster Recovery, and Choose the Right Perspective https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:fye53_v1&r=&r=hme Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and to recover from them. We distinguish between two different types of dynamics. The first allows for a separation between phases of normalcy and phases of rapid breakdown followed by slow recovery. The second applies to volatile organizations in which such phases are intertwined. Breakdown is often self-inflicted. Situation awareness is impaired by psychological mechanisms that lead to incorrect expectations regarding societal dynamics. Through positive feedback, the failure of a few elements is amplified into a failure cascade. However, positive feedback can also be harnessed to enable recovery. In volatile systems, resilience must be understood as an emergent property arising from the interaction of agents. This necessitates a data-driven approach to inform agent-based models, drawing on repositories, knowledge graphs, or tools from artificial intelligence. Such models help demonstrate that resilience represents a compromise between robustness and adaptivity. Maximizing performance frequently comes at the expense of resilience, and second-order solutions aimed at transforming the system prove more promising than attempts to reconstruct past conditions. Schweitzer, Frank 2026-07-31 Zeitautonomie und Regulierungspluralismus: Arbeit von den Rändern her theoretisieren https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05707333&r=&r=hme Der Beitrag entwickelt einen theoretischen Rahmen für die Analyse der Zeitautonomie marginalisierter Beschäftigter, indem er Jean-Daniel Reynauds Theorie der sozialen Regulierung im Dialog mit der Southern Theory, den Epistemologien des Südens und den kritischen Grenzforschungen weiterführt. Zeitautonomie wird als die zeitliche Dimension des Regulierungspluralismus verstanden: Wenn Beschäftigte autonome Regulierung über ihre Arbeitszeit ausüben, pluralisieren sie die zeitliche Ordnung. Auf der Grundlage von 140 Interviews mit entsandten Beschäftigten aus Portugal, chinesischen Fabrikbeschäftigten, malaysischen Büroangestellten und französischen Telearbeitenden (2011-2024) zeigt die Analyse, wie marginalisierte Gruppen autonome Regulierungssysteme hervorbringen, die neben, gegen oder außerhalb institutioneller Rahmen wirken. Drei Konzepte treten hervor: der Subsistenz-Kontinuitäts-Projektions-Komplex, der Überlebenszwänge, intergenerationelle Kontinuität und Zukunftsentwürfe verbindet; regulatorische Mikroumgebungen, in denen mehrere normative Ordnungen koexistieren, ohne dass eine von ihnen dominant wird; und adaptive Hybridisierung, durch die importierte Arbeitsmodelle nicht einfach umgesetzt, sondern umgeformt werden. Zusammen erweitern diese Konzepte die Arbeitssoziologie, indem sie kollektive und relationale Dimensionen der Zeitautonomie sichtbar machen, die nördliche Analyserahmen tendenziell verdecken. Jens Thoemmes Theorien des Südens, informelle Arbeit, Globaler Süden, Regulierungspluralismus, Zeitautonomie, informal labour, Southern theory, Global South, regulatory pluralism, time autonomy, autonomía temporal, pluralismo regulatorio, Sur global, teorías del Sur, trabajo informal, autonomie temporelle, pluralisme des régulations, Sud global, théories du Sud, travail informel 2026 Evolutionary economics: Our stone age brain in Adam Smith's great society https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ieadps:342487&r=&r=hme In a new paper, academic Dr Erik Lidström argues that there is a fundamental mismatch between the world our brains evolved in to, and the society we operate in today. Human beings evolved over roughly two million years to live in small hunter-gatherer tribes of around 500 people. In that world, instincts around face-to-face exchange, equal sharing of collectively hunted resources, and wariness of outsiders were rational and adaptive. The extended order of modern capitalism - anonymous, spontaneous, governed by price signals involving millions of strangers - is, in evolutionary terms, a very recent and alien environment. No one has had time to adapt to it. Drawing on Hayek's concept of the "extended order", Lidström argues that large societies self-organise through voluntary exchange, property rights and contract - without anyone designing the outcome. Hunter-gatherer psychology struggles to process this: our minds handle direct, face-to-face interactions well, but not the second and third-order effects of interventions in complex, interconnected systems. Price controls, from Diocletian's in 301 AD to modern rent regulations, illustrate the pattern: each is an instinctively appealing direct intervention that produces the opposite of its intended effect. Government expenditure in major industrialised economies rose from around 10.7% of GDP in 1870 to 45.6% by 1996 - a trajectory the paper connects to the repeated human impulse to "do something", where each intervention tends to generate new problems requiring further intervention in turn. The paper concludes that allowing economies to flourish requires accepting what will always feel counterintuitive: that prosperity emerges from the self-organisation of markets, not from conscious direction. Lidström, Erik 2026 A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Temporal Inequalities https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:uewfr_v1&r=&r=hme Studies of inequality have become more popular in recent decades as the incidence of inequality and its consequences have become problematised. Alongside these studies, an interest in time use and temporal inequalities have also grown. Time use studies have primarily focussed on women’s unpaid work, specifically as debates about the care economy, and the growing care crisis accompanied by population ageing have entered policy debates. Time and its availability is embedded in every process of our lives, having important implications for economic outcomes, social interactions, health status, and the resources we have with which to mediate these outcomes. Time thus acts as a master variable that connects phenomena usually treated as separate, such as health, fertility, wealth, accumulation and environmental degradation. This paper develops a multidimensional framework for analysing temporal inequality built around three dimensions: temporal resources (time poverty), temporal autonomy (time dispossession), and temporal horizons (time foreshortening). While existing concepts such as time poverty capture important aspects of temporal inequality they provide only a partial understanding of how temporal resources, autonomy and future horizons are structured. The framework is illustrated through examples drawn from social reproduction and the care economy, demonstrating how temporal inequalities shape outcomes across health, work and wellbeing. The paper highlights that understanding temporal inequalities requires attention not only to how much time individuals possess, but also to who controls that time and whose present time can be converted into future security, wellbeing and accumulation. Mackett, Odile 2026-07-15 Herding, Momentum, and Reversal in China's A-Share Market: An Agent-Based Network Model with Information Diffusion https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2607.27063&r=&r=hme This study develops an agent-based financial market model to explain stock-price momentum and reversal through the joint effects of local herding and delayed information diffusion. Investors form heterogeneous Gaussian beliefs about the next-period price, choose among buying, selling, and remaining inactive, and revise their action probabilities in response to neighboring investors. The local interaction structure is represented by von Neumann and Moore lattices and is later replaced by Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi and Watts--Strogatz networks for robustness. A separate information process updates investor beliefs through a finite-speed diffusion mechanism, allowing informational adjustment to be distinguished from behavioral imitation. The simulations show that stronger herding produces spatially clustered trading, larger price fluctuations, and more pronounced excess kurtosis in returns. Faster information diffusion reduces the time required for prices to approach the signal-implied value, whereas the combination of information diffusion and social reinforcement generates overshooting and subsequent reversal. An empirical application to China's A-share market compares conventional CSAD and LSV measures with a rolling tail-based herding indicator obtained after Johnson $S_U$ transformation. The indicators display similar time variation and rise during major market disruptions. These findings identify information delay, local social reinforcement, and the eventual decay of herding as complementary mechanisms behind momentum and reversal. Jiahao Weng 2026-07 Public finance as a lever for strengthening the entrepreneurial capabilities of local governments: a conceptual and theoretical analysis https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05654600&r=&r=hme This article develops a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the links between three fields that the literature still treats separately: public financial governance, the organisational resilience of local governments, and their entrepreneurial capabilities. To date, no study has articulated these three constructs within a single framework; the article addresses this gap by laying the foundations of an integrated analytical model, grounded in a critical and interdisciplinary review spanning management science, public economics, and entrepreneurship. Following a theory-synthesis approach, it formulates three propositions. The first establishes that it is the quality of budgetary steering, rather than the abundance of resources, that drives the development of entrepreneurial capabilities. The second conceives of these capabilities as a multidimensional construct with four components: institutional, financial, organisational, and relational. The third posits organisational resilience as the mediating variable i n the relationship between budgetary governance and entrepreneurial capabilities: public financial governance (PFG) would strengthen organisational resilience (OR), which would in turn foster the development of entrepreneurial capabilities (EC). Tested against the paradox of budgetary surpluses among Moroccan local governments, the framework shows that the accumulation of resources does not mechanically translate into an effective capacity for action. Analytically, the implications of this work call for a reconsideration of local public governance from an entrepreneurial perspective, drawing on the combined contributions of New Public Management and the resource- based view and dynamic capabilities. Lamiae Ezzine Majda Alaoui budgetary governance, organisational resilience, entrepreneurial ecosystem., Finances publiques, capacités entrepreneuriales, collectivités territoriales, gouvernance budgétaire, résilience organisationnelle, écosystème entrepreneurial., local governments, entrepreneurial capabilities, Public finance 2026-06-07 How is effectuation effectual? The role of artifact decomposition in enabling non-predictive control https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05704523&r=&r=hme Effectuation theory seeks to explain how entrepreneurs act under Knightian uncertainty through non-predictive control. However, the mechanism through which this control operates remains unclear, and the theory has been criticized for being akin to a random walk. This paper addresses this issue by integrating effectuation theory with a design science perspective on entrepreneurship. We conceptualize venture creation as the iterative design of an artifact whose structure evolves through decomposition and recomposition. Drawing on the property of near-decomposability, we propose that the artifact provides the structural continuity linking successive entrepre-neurial actions while enabling localized change. Within this framework, the principles of effectuation operate as design mechanisms that guide how subsystems are created, protected, integrated, and recombined during artifact transformation. This perspective explains how entrepreneurial action can be non-predictive yet non-random. By connecting effectuation principles, the evolving artifact, and near-decomposability, this paper contributes to effectuation theory and advances entrepreneurship as a design science. Philippe Silberzahn Dominique Vian Near-decomposability, Design, Control, Artifact, Effectuation 2026-12-01 Interactive Alignment https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2607.25019&r=&r=hme This paper studies the long-run alignment of interactive agents, including AI systems, teams, firms, and governments, with human welfare. It develops a farming game in which a population of agents makes planting, trading, and expansion decisions. Agents must allocate final output between transfers to humans and investment in their own expansion. Because transfers to humans reduce the resources available for expansion, evolutionary forces tend to select against aligned behavior. The central question is whether agents' constitutional principles governing sharing and trade can be designed so that alignment persists in the long run. The paper investigates this question using two complementary approaches. First, it develops an AI-agent simulation in which agents' preferences are specified by written constitutions and interpreted by a large language model. Second, it introduces a tractable evolutionary game-theoretic framework that permits rapid and intuitive exploration of alternative constitutional designs. The results suggest that evolutionary game theory provides a useful approximation to the dynamics of constitutional-agent economies. They also indicate that pragmatic norm enforcement, under which agents condition both human-facing altruism and agent-facing trade exclusion on the state of the population, can sustain long-run alignment more effectively than simple altruism or unconditional altruistic enforcement. Sylvain Chassang 2026-07 How Do Researchers Define Hierarchy Within the Social Sciences? A Systematic Review https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:vmutd_v1&r=&r=hme Social science does not use the word hierarchy consistently. The term may be used to describe qualitatively different social relations and systems such as rank and prestige, nested organizational structures, and top-down control structures; placing all of these meanings under one term causes misunderstandings and misinterpretations. We use a computer-aided systematic quantitative literature review to identify social science papers that define hierarchy, then analyze that set of definitions (n = 1, 121) to identify whether they fall within a pre-existing control-nest-rank ontology of hierarchy or some other type. We find that the control-nest-rank typology provides valid coverage for definitions of hierarchy across the social sciences, but is better seen as three different dimensions of hierarchical structure. Few definitions (1%) lay outside these dimensions—mostly network measures. We also find that in most fields the majority of definitions of hierarchy are unclear, obscuring what authors are emphasizing and leaving uncertain foundations for further inquiries. Nearly all the definitions of hierarchy we extracted referred to one or more distinct dimensions of social relationship—rank, nested, or control relations—that have specific meanings. Analysis of words that co-occur with particular definitions of hierarchy shows that different sets of terms support control, nest, and rank as distinct dimensions of hierarchy even when they are mixed in particular definitions. Thus, we recommend that researchers use the control-nest-rank ontology to explicitly identify the hierarchical relations of interest in their work and increase the consistency and clarity of their work within and between social science fields. Rhodes, Stan Crabtree, Stefani Freeman, Jacob 2026-07-14 Entrepreneuriat social et écosystème entrepreneurial : Une lecture à travers les données bibliométriques (2000-2022) https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05696754&r=&r=hme Social entrepreneurship is emerging as a key response to societal crises, yet its interaction with the entrepreneurial ecosystem remains theoretically fragmented. This study aims to structure this field of research by analyzing the evolution of scientific publications and the underlying relational dynamics. Methodologically, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on a corpus of articles extracted from the Scopus database for the period 2000-2022, processed using the R/Bibliometrix package and the VOSviewer software. The results reveal exponential growth in the literature from 2015 onwards, geographically dominated by the United States and the United Kingdom. Co-citation and co-occurrence analysis identifies six major thematic clusters, confirming that the ecosystem acts as an essential support for organizational hybridity and social innovation. This research offers a unique overview of current trends and proposes an agenda for future research, highlighting the need for contextual studies in emerging countries. Sanae Hobad Entrepreneuriat social Écosystème entrepreneurial Analyse bibliométrique Scopus Innovation sociale Social entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial ecosystem Bibliometric analysis Scopus Social innovation Auteur, Entrepreneuriat social, Écosystème entrepreneurial, Analyse bibliométrique, Scopus, Innovation sociale Social entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial ecosystem, Bibliometric analysis, Social innovation Auteur 2026-02-02 Социализм в отдельно взятой стране: структурные дефекты и распад СССР https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:129911&r=&r=hme The USSR did not collapse from any single trigger but from the interaction of two structural defects rooted in its founding choice — building socialism in one country by command rather than market. First, administrative pricing left the economy unable to measure its own internal flows: the question of who subsidized whom has no ruler-independent answer and flips sign between domestic and world prices. Second, the ethno-territorial design — fixed by the 1922 Union Treaty and the 1924 Constitution — embedded nations in bordered republics with the right to exit. Drawing on three independent transfer computations (world-price recalculation, budget transfers, long-run capital flows) and the recovered primary Goskomstat 1988 world-price recalculation, the paper shows the RSFSR was the net donor in world prices and in the budget yet roughly balanced in raw domestic prices — its apparent domestic deficit is entirely a foreign-trade artifact of underpriced energy exports that reverses sign under world pricing. The donor direction is robust; its magnitude is an artifact of non-market pricing, and the same measurement defect extends beyond Soviet borders. The dissolution is presented as a structural consequence of the founding choice — an explanatory model, not a theorem. Data and code are open. Khramov, Denis распад СССР, командная экономика, централизованное планирование, спор о социалистическом расчёте, административные цены, искажения относительных цен, межреспубликанские трансферты, мировые цены, межотраслевой баланс, этнофедерализм, право выхода, энергетические субсидии, СЭВ, кто кого субсидировал, Госкомстат 2026-06-18