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L'échange et la loi. Le statut de la rationalité chez Rousseau

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  • Christophe Salvat

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The economic thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau has often been reduced to some pieces on money, inequalities, luxury and autarky. Compared to contemporary writings of Quesnay, Smith or Hume, it has been considered for long as backward. Jean Mathiot has however shown that, far from being backward-looking, Rousseau?s economic thought can been seen as a significant move of the political philosophy in its relation with political economy. The ambition of this article is to show, through the example of the economic exchange, that the relation between politics and economics cannot be reduced to an hegemony of the political rationality. The economic rationality appears, on the contrary, constituent of the legitimate civil state including in its most negative expression, I mean autarky. Classification JEL : A11, A12, A13, B11, B31, K00.

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  • Christophe Salvat, 2007. "L'échange et la loi. Le statut de la rationalité chez Rousseau," Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 58(2), pages 381-398.
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    1. Claire Pignol, 2010. "Money, exchange and division of labour in Rousseau's economic philosophy," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 199-228.

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    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B11 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)

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