In the field of geographic studies, little place is given to the theory of the action in situ. The purpose of this article is to study this issue and to elaborate certain lines of reflection on the possibility of building such a theory: a situlogyof action perspectives. This reflexion will be...

Over the past two centuries, the process of emergence of the institutional approach in political economy has seen an opposition between two conceptions of the relation existing to between economy and institution. From its foundation until today, orthodox liberal economics has tried to reduce the...

This article examines the diverse aspects of the “conversion” of J. C. L. Simonde of Sismondi, in 1817 with the Political Economy. The moment and the contents of the conversion of Sismondi present two kinds of difficulties of interpretation. The first one concerns the role which plays the...

The Austrian economist Othmar Spann (1878-1950) proposes term "universalism" to qualify, in opposition to the "individualism", the doctrine and the method consisting in putting in first totality, society, in the logical order of "functional" analysis of economic facts. Spann applies then this...

L’article étudie les conceptions utilitaristes de Holbach concernant la théorie de l’action et la morale sociale. Holbach défend une conception originale de l’action utilitaire fondée sur l’articulation entre l’action individuelle, la « gravitation sur soi », et l’action...

Cet article étudie les positions des économistes classiques français dans la période allant de 1803 à 1848. La première partie considère la manière dont, une fois mis de côté une grande part de leur propre héritage en économie politique, les auteurs français ou de langue française...