The paper aims to show the overall coherence of the system of thought Commons employed to build his institutional economics. For that and in order not to stay enclosed within the American context Commons’ ideas have been considered to be dependent upon, we read him through the methodological...

Cette communication retrace le contexte et le contenu du débat sur la responsabilité vis-à-vis de l'emploi qui s'est déroulé aux Etats-Unis dans les années 20-30. En approfondissant les sous-bassements analytiques du raisonnement institutionnaliste porté par Commons autour de la première...

Are institutionalism and structuralism compatible or do they confront each other? This article suggests an answer to this question, starting from an analysis of the structuration of these two paradigmatic fields of social sciences. It observes the existence in economies of both structuralist...