[eng] The interpretation of the sign theory of money which Michel Foucault based on a theory of representation is contested in favor of an interpretation which instead emphasizes both the notion of universal exchange and the notion of convention. This sign theory of money is illustrated by...

[eng] Whether and to what extent Keynes should be considered both a liberal and an individualist is a rather complex question, and one which this paper proposes to disentangle by analyzing Keynes' understanding of Mandeville, whose positions on these two issues were rather ambiguous, as well....

[eng] It is out of question that Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter were heterodox in their relation to Economics considered as a science. A legitimate question however concerns the type of heterodoxy whic is characteristic of each of them. Kuhn's perception — and, to a lesser extent, Feyerabend's...

[fre] Économie néo-libérale et économie néo-classique se distinguent par la priorité accordée respectivement à deux orientations opposées qui cohabitent au sein même de la pensée libérale, soit la valorisation du laissez-faire et la volonté d'ajuster l'économie réelle aux...

It is usually admitted that an ideally rational economic agent must be endowed with perfect deductive abilities applied to correct and consistent beliefs and preferences. Since such requirements must exclude change in taste as well as learning, omniscience and even science of the future would be...

The radical apriorism of Mises and Rothbard has frequently been violently criticized. Without attempting to rehabilitate this excessive thesis, the paper will revisit the intuition, originating in Kant, from which apriorism was developed. Taking as an example the "law" of diminishing marginal...