School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

Short-Run Expectational Coordination: Fixed Versus Flexible Wages

Abstract: This paper considers a simple "three-goods" model and focuses attention on the expectational stability of its equilibria. The setting allows us to describe stylized general equilibrium macro interactions: firms hire workers and then sell production to buyers whose purchasing power depends on the firms' previous decisions. We assess expectational stability from an "eductive" learning procedure that reflects basic rationality considerations. From our viewpoint on coordination, we compare the merits of fixed wages versus flexible wages. Although in both cases the same factors—supply and demand elasticities, marginal propensity to save—are effective, expectational coordination is often more successful with flexible wages.

A Socioenvironmental Shale Gas Controversy Scientists’ Public Communications, Social Responsibility and Collective Versus Individual Positions

Abstract: In this case study, we analyze the discourse, practices and representations of a group of scientists who issued public statements about the French shale gas controversy. The reasons they gave for engaging in this process of communication focused on their social responsibility, their collective ad hoc expertise and the neutrality of their position. We also investigated how these scientists actually produced their communications, despite the tensions between individual and collective positions. We discuss how this experience led them to reflect both individually and collectively on their representations of science in society.

Transborder violence: the PKK in Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Abstract: This paper develops the category of transborder violence in order to analyze PKK mobilization and use of violence in and from Syria and Iraq. Wars, regional crises and insurgencies produce new configurations of political opportunities by offering new spaces and resources to the PKK as well as to state actors (Turkey, Iraq and Syria). Political actors use these spaces and resources in order to protect themselves, invent legitimacies, and organize armed operations by reproducing political violence.