Le besoin, comme nécessité de l'action

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: The race for maximum efficiency in national production ultimately pays little or no attention to satisfying the needs of all citizens. Efficiency takes precedence over everything, without concern for a deep reflection on the natural expectations of men in their collective activity. Economic growth does not take into account growing inequalities, social pollution and environmental damage. The famous indicators, such as GDP, hide more information than they contain on the satisfaction of needs. Human ends are no longer the subject of research, since only the production and consumption of goods and services are taken into account, without underlining the arduousness of work, the non-economic freedom of choice and the necessary solidarity of any entity. Economic activity is born out of need, but it also modifies their relative intensity. The need for reflection in terms of need is real, but the economic and political powers are opposed to it in order to maintain their forms of privilege.

Keywords: Théorie des besoins; désir; PIB; public programmation; Need theory; desire; GDP; planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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Published in Pour une nouvelle théorie économique des besoins, Université des Sciences Sociales de Grenoble, Les Cours d'Economie, 1977

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