Franc ois Perroux, a precursor of the current analyses of power

René Sandretto ()
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René Sandretto: University of Lyon, Lyon, F-69003, France; CNRS, UMR 5824, GATE, Ecully, F-69130, France; ENS LSH, Lyon, F-69007, France

No 904, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: Despite its important contributions to economic thought, namely in the field of spatial economics and economics of development, François Perroux, one of the most important French economists of the 20st century, remains today poorly appreciated and frequently unrecognized. This paper tends to show how unfair is this deficit of recognition. We underline Perrouxís illuminating views on asymmetry, domination and power which can be considered as a prefiguration and ñ to some extent ñ as a generalization of works made in this field half a century later, for example the American realist and neo-realist approaches of power (namely the concepts of hard and soft power) or by Susan Strange (with his concept of structural power).

Keywords: Asymmetry; power; domination; influence; coercion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B19 B4 B5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2009
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