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[eng] Whether and to what extent Keynes should be considered both a liberal and an individualist is a rather complex question, and one which this paper proposes to disentangle by analyzing Keynes' understanding of Mandeville, whose positions on these two issues were rather ambiguous, as well. Through a comparison of Keynes' reading of the Fable of the Bees with those of N. Rosenberg, F. Hayek and L. Dumont, it is shown that Mandeville' s and Keynes' positions are much more alike than is generally admitted. Furthermore, this similarity invites us to redefine such categories as « individualism », « holism », « liberalism » and « interventionism », which clearly are difficult to apply to either of these two authors. [fre] Dans le but d'éclairer la question de savoir jusqu'à quel point Keynes devrait être considéré tant comme un libéral que comme un individualiste, le texte examine la façon dont Keynes a compris Mandeville qui, adoptait lui-même, à ce double égard, des positions plutôt ambiguës. La lecture que fait Keynes de la Fable des Abeilles est comparée à celles de N. Rosenberg, de F. Hayek et de L. Dumont. De cette comparaison, se dégage la conclusion que les positions respectives de Keynes et de Mandeville sont beaucoup plus apparentées qu'on le suppose généralement. De plus, ce rapprochement nous invite à redéfinir des concepts comme "individualisme", "holisme", "libéralisme" et "interventionnisme" qui manifestement ne peuvent s'appliquer aisément ni à l'un ni à l'autre de ces auteurs.
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Maurice Lagueux, 1998.
"Was Keynes a Liberal and an Individualist ? Or Keynes reader of Mandeville,"
Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 30(1), pages 255-263.
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RePEc:prs:caecpo:cep_0154-8344_1998_num_30_1_1221
DOI: 10.3406/cep.1998.1221
Note: DOI:10.3406/cep.1998.1221
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