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Les lois économiques doivent-elles s'appliquer aux biens de subsistance ?

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  • Alain Clément

    (TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

While many very general laws exist in economics (Malthus's law, the law of supply and demand,Engel's law, etc.) attesting that the scientific character of the discipline, ‘vital resources' fall into a category oftheir own and are recognised as such. This has led to the creation of knowledge and specific laws that are notapplicable and not transposable to other areas of economics (e.g. the King-Davenant law). Some economists haveeven proposed to transfer ‘vital resources' because of their specific character from the domain of economics to anotherdisciplinary, moral and political domain, more in relation with our way to think the role of subsistence goods inthe history of humanity. Thereby they opened the way and provided justification for other types of (normative)‘man-made' laws and for rules and norms. It is then easier to understand why, even in today economic debates, wetalk of the ‘agricultural exception'.

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  • Alain Clément, 2006. "Les lois économiques doivent-elles s'appliquer aux biens de subsistance ?," Post-Print halshs-00261528, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00261528
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