Economists produce their statements and forecasts from devices articulating abstract theories with mathematical models and statistical instruments of measurement. What is the empirical significance of these theories ? We consider this question from the reflection of Wassily Leontief, 1973 Nobel Prize winner.

Social sciences and humanities make use of textual corpuses. By surrounding various practical analyses with theoretical reflexions, this work mixes fields, methods, softwares and points of view in order to reveal specificities and variations, but also show tools and solution which fields can exchange with each other.

Indonesia is little studied in the sociology of new international migrations. However, by implementing a socio-anthropology of migrations, this book shows that the migrations of Indonesian workers to Malaysia and Singapore are key to the transformation of Southeast Asian societies and to the globalization of regional economies.

This book throws light on Edith Penrose's contribution to the theory of the firm. In particular, it relies on the analysis of her 1955 article, published in the American Economic Review four years before her magnus opus The Theory of the Growth of the Firm and entitled: « Limits to the Growth and Size of Firms ».

Sobriety, promotion of organic farming, these bioeconomic principles proposed in the 1970s by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen led to the commonly-made association between his works and the De-growth Movement.

This book acknowledges that there can be no reflection on liberalism without the concept of freedom but that no concept of freedom can be included among the different forms of liberalism. The two words which constitute the subject of this investigation refer to empirical or conceptual realities and a priori different chronologies.