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[eng] O. Favereau assumes with spirit and brio that Keynes would have deepened and disclosed various elements of his economic theory with such an order and stressing as to accommodate it to the most efficient fighting against orthodoxy at the time, according to his own judgment. This idea attributes the heterogeneity of Keynes's economic theory to an hesitation in his practical thinking, and not to obscurities or confusions of an analytical or epistemological type. On some points considered as decisive by Favereau himself, it seems that this question "strategic hesitation or theoretic confusion" may be rather settled in the second way. The following points are here stressed in turn : the qualification of the unemployment state by the notions of market or non-market equilibrium ; the origin of non-calculable uncertainty : time or money ? ; the existence in Keynes of a theory of wealth allocation, alternative to the orthodox market theory. [fre] 0. Favereau formule avec fougue et brio l'hypothèse selon laquelle Keynes approfondirait et divulguerait dans un ordre et selon une accentuation variables différents éléments de sa théorie économique en fonction de ce qu'il estime lui- même à différentes époques être la lutte la plus efficace contre l'orthodoxie. Or cette idée revient à imputer l'hétérogénéité de la théorie économique de Keynes à une hésitation de la pensée pratique et non à des obscurités ou des confusions de type analytique ou épistémologique. Il semble que sur quelques points jugés décisifs par Favereau lui-même cette question « hésitation stratégique ou confusion théorique » chez Keynes permet d'être tranchée plutôt dans le second sens. On fait ici successivement référence aux notions d'équilibre marchand ou d'équilibre non marchand par quoi qualifier l'état de sous-emploi ; à l'origine de l'incertitude non probabilisable — temps ou argent ? ; à la présence chez Keynes d'une théorie de l'allocation des richesses alternatives à la théorie orthodoxe du marché.
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Arnaud Berthoud, 1988.
"Le double projet dans la Théorie Générale de Keynes : un commentaire du texte d'Olivier Favereau,"
Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 14(1), pages 221-226.
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RePEc:prs:caecpo:cep_0154-8344_1988_num_14_1_1070
DOI: 10.3406/cep.1988.1070
Note: DOI:10.3406/cep.1988.1070
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