Rationalist and empiricist fictions in economics

Fictions rationalistes et fictions empiristes en économie

Marion Chottin () and Claire Pignol
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Marion Chottin: ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon

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Abstract: The article shows how the general equilibrium theory has been build, since Walras, by inheriting Galileo's and Descartes's fictions of science, which Hobbes followed by the Physiocrats applied to the social world. The walrasian competitive market is a fiction similar to Galileo's frictionless machine or to Descartes's "fable" of the world. Those rationalist fictions can be criticized non from observation but through the empiricist fictions of the Enlightenment.

Keywords: General equilibrium; market; fiction; empiricism; rationalism; Équilibre général; marché; empirisme; rationalisme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-13
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2018, 2018 – 1 (n° 5), pp.99-137. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08068-8.p.0099⟩

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DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08068-8.p.0099

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