Dans ce texte, l'auteur explore le problème des microfondements du comportement individuel. Dans la première partie du texte, l'auteur essaie de clarifier la signification de l'individualisme ...

It is currently common to conceive of the classic methodological individualism–holism debate in level terms. Accordingly, the dispute is taken to concern the proper level of explanations in the social ...

Reproduction, as described by Bourdieu and Passeron, is the authoritative theory in the sociology of education. But doesn't methodological individualism deserve more attention as the web opens new ...

Economics could advance enormously if it relaxed one of its most precious assumptions: methodological individualism, or the idea that any explanation needs to be related to individuals making sensible ...

Economics used to be a social science, but this is no longer so. markwainwright/ Flickr Today, the field has largely become a study of individual agents acting outside of society, as if societal ...

Public Economics – Public Choice represents a pivotal field in economic theory that applies the analytical rigour of rational choice and market principles to the study of political decision‐making.