Le libéralisme contre le capitalisme. Édition revue et augmentée

Valérie Charolles ()
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Valérie Charolles: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], IIAC - Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LASCO - Laboratoire Sens et Compréhension du Monde Contemporain - Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]

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Abstract: If the economic technique is difficult to comprehend for those who are not specialists, the principles on which it is based are accessible to all: What is wealth? How is it measured? How is it distributed? As soon as the confusion between liberalism and capitalism - which are radically different - is unveiled, then liberalism enables to think the economy differently. It is not by standing outside the economic field that we will be able to loosen the constraints in which it holds us. It may be by placing ourselves on its own ground, but by ensuring a real consistency between the economic rules and the values promoted by Adam Smith's original theory, which also happen to be at the heart of democratic principles. Democracy is the market of politic; it is the political system that is based on a market relationship, that of the free confrontation between a political demand and a political offer. Presenting liberalism as a space of neutrality does not amount to making it a definitive horizon. On the contrary, it is to consider that it can provide a common ground for discussion - neither capitalist nor socialist - from which we will be able to choose and no longer be subjected to the forms of the economy.

Keywords: Liberalism; Capitalism; Philosophy; Economy; Political sciences; Libéralisme; Capitalisme; Philosophie; Economie; Sciences politiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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Published in Gallimard, 667, pp.383, 2021, Folio. Essais, 978-2-07-288660-7

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