Technocracy, Knowledge Regime and the Anti-free Market Attitude of French Economists

Facchini François ()
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Facchini François: Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2024, vol. 30, issue 1, 23-46

Abstract: This article contributes to the economics of economics. It explains the distrust of French economists in the market economy and their interest in the construction of techniques to aid public decision-making. French economists are in favor of various forms of interventionism because they are hired by the government to produce the techniques of government that allow the State to replace the contract and the price mechanism and because to be an economist today one must unknowingly adopt a scientistic posture, in other words learn the tools of government economics. The French status quo can partly be explained by this technocratic ideal of government.

Keywords: science; technocracy; liberalism; knowledge regime; economists; France; science; technocratie; libéralisme; régime de connaissance; économistes; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1515/jeeh-2024-0016

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