La science économique comme idéologie. La science de gestion comme viatique de l’actionnaire

Eric Brunat and Jacques Fontanel ()
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Eric Brunat: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: Since the generalisation of the market economy, economic science has sounded the death knell for political economy. In this context, the market was omnipotent and the State had to concentrate its activity on the organisation of a regalian domain, often fluctuating and rather regressing according to private interests. Management science itself gave tools to companies within the framework of an economic system that advocated individual interest as the determining objective for each of the economic actors. Today, with the Covid-19 pandemic, the analyses of liberal economists are becoming obsolete in the face of a deep economic and social crisis. The economy is now revealing its eminently political character. The international, national and local public sectors organized the fight against the crisis of the market economy. The state once again became the central actor in the management of the national economy, and it was then led to make political choices that would redraw the economic and social structures of the country, particularly in the face of the large multinational firms and the ambitions of other nations. The profoundly political and social character of a globalized economy is highlighted by this crisis, which is characterized by the violence of relations between states and between citizens.

Keywords: Management science; Economic policy; Multinational firms; Financial capitalism; Pandemic; Social inequality; Economics; Science économique; Science de gestion; Politique économique; Firmes multinationales; Capitalisme financier; Pandémie; Covid-19; Inégalité sociale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-05-05
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Published in Marché et Organisations, 2021, Crise pandémique, crise globale : réalité et controverses théoriques, 41, pp.59-77. ⟨10.3917/maorg.041.0059⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/maorg.041.0059

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