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| Titre : |
Logic of the system and instrumental reason |
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| Numéro : |
08 |
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| Année : |
1997 |
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| Volume : |
IV |
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| Auteur(s) : |
André NICOLAÏ |
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| Résumé : |
Economists today are seriously correcting the two fundamental postulates of neo-classical theory: the optimizing rationality of agents and the unique and optimal balance of perfect competition, which brings them closer to other human sciences. This is happening at the very moment when the present phase of capitalism is characterized by an unegalitarian globalization of the system and by a growing dependence by the other social spheres on its logic and the instrumental rationality that it implies. A reminder of the facts that led to this situation and the history of relations between cognitive rationality and behavioural rationality allows us to explain how it has been transformed into instrumental rationality, which increasingly subordinates cognitive rationality. However, the present functioning of the system encounters resistance on the part of society and states and above all produces contradictions : the destruction of Nature and the discordance between the growth of production capacities and the slowing down of the capacity to absorb the goods produced. This gives rise to conflictual situations which should incite psychosociologists to reinforce their intervention which, in turn, would allow a renewal of theory. |
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| Pages : |
13 - 31 |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
system logic, instrumental reason |
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