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Rationalist and empiricist fictions in economics
[Fictions rationalistes et fictions empiristes en économie]

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  • Marion Chottin

    (ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon)

  • Claire Pignol

    (UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Abstract

The article shows how the general equilibrium theory has been build, since Walras, by inheriting Galileo's and Descartes's fictions of science, which Hobbes followed by the Physiocrats applied to the social world. The walrasian competitive market is a fiction similar to Galileo's frictionless machine or to Descartes's "fable" of the world. Those rationalist fictions can be criticized non from observation but through the empiricist fictions of the Enlightenment.

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  • Marion Chottin & Claire Pignol, 2018. "Rationalist and empiricist fictions in economics [Fictions rationalistes et fictions empiristes en économie]," Post-Print hal-01821477, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01821477
    DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08068-8.p.0099
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