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Science économique et sens commun : trois thèses sur leurs relations réciproques

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    (LATEC - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Techniques Economiques [UMR 5118] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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Trois thèses sur la relation entre science économique et sens commun sont défendues dans cet essai. La première est que la science économique trouve dans la critique des vérités supposées du sens commun un facteur providentiel de légitimité. A cette fin, elle s'est en partie employée à révéler et expliciter des mécanismes sous-jacents surprenants ou paradoxaux par rapport aux idées reçues. La deuxième thèse est que l'opposition entre le langage théorique et celui du sens commun constitue pour l'essentiel, malgré sa popularité, un faux problème. Il y a moins opposition entre deux langages que, très largement, complémentarité. La troisième thèse est programmatique: la réflexion philosophique sur la science économique doit s'efforcer de découvrir le passage étroit permettant de conserver quelque chose de deux idées: celle que la science économique révèle des mécanismes ou des interactions ignorés par le sens commun et l'argumentselon lequel toute supériorité informationnelle durable de l'observateur sur l'observé et toute inefficacité persistante demandent une explication.

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  • Pierre Salmon, 2003. "Science économique et sens commun : trois thèses sur leurs relations réciproques," Working Papers hal-01544837, HAL.
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    Science économique; relations réciproques; théorie;
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