Violence et économie

Gaël Giraud

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This paper defends the idea that Western modernity can be characterized by the rivalry of two institutions, the state and the market, competing for the charge of maintaining security against social violence while both are major sources of violence. It is so because the possibility of violence lies at the heart of every institution. To fight against it requires, in the economic area, to be able to get free from idolatry with respect to the state and the market, in order to better reform both

Keywords: Violence; unefficiency; inequality; market; state; reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A11 A12 A13 B0 N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2010-05
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