Pourquoi l’économie est-elle nécessairement instituée ? Une réponse commonsienne à partir du concept de futurité

• Main Author: Jean-Jacques Gislain
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association d'Economie Politique 2010-12-01
• Series: Interventions Économiques pour une Alternative Sociale
• Subjects: Commons; economic institution; futurity; John R. Commons; theory of economic action
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1195

Most of the available "institutional" approaches do not supply a good answer to the following question: why is the economy inevitably institutionalized? Only the institutionalist approaches of T. Veblen and of J.R. Commons answer this question adequately. The approach of Commons is the center of our article. It is reminded that for Commons economic conflict requires an institutional order regulating economic transactions. The Çommonsian theory of economic action is studied in detail here. The concept of futurity is the analytical key to our analysis. It allows understanding how the institutionalized action is a prerequisite of economic activity.