How many pennies for your pain? Willingness to compensate as a function of expected future interaction and intentionality feedback

Despite increased research efforts in the area of reconciliation and trust repair in economic relations, most studies depart from a victim’s perspective. Specifically, these studies evaluate the process of trust repair by looking at the impact of restoration tactics on victims’ reactions. We focused on the transgressor’s perspective and present findings from two studies that investigated how the amount of compensation that a transgressor is willing to pay depends on victims’ reactions to the transgression (i.e. whether they claim the transgression happened intentionally or unintentionally) and the time horizon of the relationship between the transgressor and the victim (future vs. no future interaction). We hypothesized and found that transgressors are willing to pay less compensation to a victim who believes the transgression happened intentionally (as opposed to unintentionally), but only so when they share no future interaction perspective together. When transgressors have a future interaction perspective with the victim, intentionality feedback does not affect compensation size

Agriculture et développement économique. Essai de détermination de liaisons fonctionnelles entre quelques agrégats économiques.

Tentative estimation of functional relationships between some economic aggregates The author makes a synthesis of the works in quantative economics, showing the decline of the part of agriculture in the gross national product in most countries. He points out that certain farm policies have tried unsuccessfully to stop this inevitable trend. The only measure would be to increase the degree of food self-sufficiency. Two important facts are to be noted : the share of the consumers food expenditures allocated to non-farm products tend to remain unchanged and the input bought by farmers represent from 2,5 to 3,5 % of the gross national product in any country, at any time and at any level of developmen

Quelques reflexions sur l'evolution recente de la pensee economique agricole

Under the pressure of the deep transformations of the economy, the dominant direction of the thinking in agricultural economics has been the concern to open up agriculture, to reduce its isolation and its specificity both from the conceptual and from the economic and social point of view. The globality of the economy, the internationalization of the market and the sustainability of the environment are increasingly present in any economic analysis and this analysis must be carried out to an increasing extent on a multidisciplinary way

Contradictions de la politique agricole dans les pays industrialisés

Contradictions of agricultural policy - Having briefly recalled what have been so far the main constraints — economic, social and political — of agricultural policy, both at national and international level, this article identifies the contradictions of present policies and tries to give an answer to the questions arising when discussing the future of agriculture. The concepts of growth, of parity and of protection and questions such as : What is agriculture ? Who is a farmer ? are analysed. The article proceeds with the discussion of a policy framework for the 19&0's which would insert agriculture on the one hand in a policy for the entire agri-business complex and on the other hand in a policy for resources development and conservation. The article stresses also the need to develop a policy for all the under-privileged, irrespective of the professional group to which they belong

Le développement des pays du Tiers-Monde et l'agriculture européenne

This geographical study shows about High-Languedoc the existence of simultaneous trends of decline and recovering in agriculture. It also analyses spatial and paysagistic consequences of these dynamics