Policy mix for environmental protection: A transaction cost approach

This paper uses a transaction cost approach in order to classify the different policy options that are currently discussed in relation to the Kyoto protocol. It analyses the market as only one of the possible collective decision making processes, which are available to operationalize the concept of sustainable development. The firm, the third sector, the government, the market are analysed as collective decision making processes. They are socially constructed in the sense that they are institutions, which are subject to change. Compared to initial and already existing institutions, the policy options for environmental protection are evaluated in the light of the associated transaction costs. The paper concludes with the recommendation for new institutional arrangements minimising transaction costs at both the national and international level

Systèmes économiques alternatifs : le retour du refoulé

Un regard attentif porté sur les différentes pratiques économiques observables au sein de notre société n’éclaire pas seulement des échanges marchands, mais porte également sur les activités non marchandes qui se rencontrent aussi bien dans le domaine public que privé. Pour rester schématique, nous pouvons distinguer trois secteurs. Le premier, qui fait l’objet du courant principal de la théorie économique, concerne le marché. Un long débat théorique, qui remonte à J.S. Mill, n’a pas seulemen..

De l’utopie globalitaire à l’utopie locale

Nous vivons dans un monde violent. Peu importe que la réalité dépasse la fiction et que sa représentation symbolique y contribue par une projection sociale autosuggestive. La question centrale qui se pose à nous au niveau planétaire, c’est de savoir par quel moyen, par quelle politique, nous parvenons à réduire cette violence. Pour pouvoir répondre à cette question, il faudrait d’abord se mettre d’accord sur ses causes et favoriser l’analyse au détriment de la rhétorique. Que cette rhétorique..

La Science Economique Face au Développement Durable: Vers quelle ouverture interdisciplinaire de la science économique?

It is often claimed that economic science has to open up towards other disciplines in order to fully grasp the very nature of the concept of sustainable development. Economic sciences analyses this concept in three different approaches, which can be either seen as beeing complements or in conflict. This paper discusses theses approaches, shows their common ground and defines a research agenda for an optimal policy design.Economie Methodology; Public Economies: General; Renewable Resources and Conservation; Environmental Management

Un aspect réel de révolution du produit national suisse: les investissements directs à l'étranger

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Evaluation des differences de prix entre la Suisse et les pays de la CE

There are important price differences between Switzerland and EC countries in the examined product groups with the exception of cars, motorcycles and bicycles. The price differences are smaller within the EC than between EC and non member countries, confirming the assumption that economic integration leads to the convergence of national price levels. However, when comparing the eight countries under consideration, one notices that Italy rather than Switzerland comes last Being a member of the EC is therefore not synonymous with price convergence; other explanations have also to be taken into account.

Effects of Foreign Labour on the Production Pattern: The Swiss Case

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