This paper proposes to reconsider the methodology (in the first part of the paper) and the history (in the second part of the paper) of economics on the basis of the constructivist institutionalism practiced at present in political science. In the third part of the paper a project for the...

The paper is the second message (the first was called “Toward another economic science (and thus toward another institution of this science)”) of the author to the French heterodox economists (post-Keynesians, Marxists, regulationists, conventionalists, socio-economists) which has the aim to...

The open letter from economic students to professors and others responsible for the teaching of this discipline has been published in Le Monde of June 17th, 2000. The text of this letter was signed by nearly a thousand students and dozens of teachers in just one month. Here is the beginning of...

The causes of the failure of the neoclassical approach to the economic transition in the countries formerly belonging to the Soviet Union are analyzed at a general level and then in the specific case of agriculture in North Kazakhstan. Three dimensions of Soviet-type economic institutions...

Russian agrarian reform failure is a direct result of ignoring the nature of agrarian institutions inherited from Soviet times and the application of a liberal neo-classical approach in the law making process. The most important problem which presents impediments to agrarian reform is the role...

The three principal Russian agrarian institutions are present in Russia beginning from the XVIth century up to now, undergoing transformations but preserving a “hard core”. They are the estate, the peasant farm and the rural community. Transformations of these institutions take place...

Russian agrarian reform failure is a direct result of ignoring the nature of agrarian institutions inherited from Soviet times and the application of a liberal neo-classical approach in the law making process. The most important problem which presents impediments to agrarian reform is the role...

The three principal Russian agrarian institutions are present in Russia beginning from the XVIth century up to now, undergoing transformations but preserving a “hard core”. They are the estate, the peasant farm and the rural community. The paper reproduces the evolution of the Russian...

The paper proposes to reconsider radically the methodology and history of economics, whether present day mainstream or heterodox versions of it. The profession of economists must definitely abandon Cartesian dualism and adopt Vygotskian constructivism. In fact constructivist economics already...

In the process of creating new enterprises on the basis of former collective farms, including those managed by large vertically integrated companies ("agroholdings"), it is necessary to separate its functions of social support (community dimension) and its functions of commodity production...