présentations

L’évolution de la science
économique : quelques
éléments et perspectives
Cyril Hédoin
REGARDS
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Séminaire REGARDS –18/02/2013
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“A scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them
see the light, but rather because its
opponents eventually die and a new
generation grows up that is familiar with it”
Max Planck

Quelques exemples de débats au
sein du mainstream
“What we do care about is the persistence of
practices that we see as inimical to the future of
our profession. (…) Our aim was simply to
draw the attention of mainstream
economists to the danger of tolerating
practices that would be regarded as
unscientific in other disciplines”
Binmore & Shaked (2010), à propos de
l’économie comportementale
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Quelques exemples de débats au
sein du mainstream
“In summation, Greif intends in his book to develop at
least the outline of a new, micro grounded theory of
institutions. (…) By the end, however, this reviewer, to
the contrary, read it mostly as a demonstration of the
impossibility of a systematic account of institutions
along the lines he proposes. The efflorescence of
concepts, combined with the constriction of
possible empirical tests, makes the hallmark
of any scientific account, prediction and
testing, impossible”
Clark (2007), à propos de l’ouvrage d’Avner Greif
(2006)
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Vers un mainstream pluraliste ?
Un nombre croissant d’auteurs souligne
l’évolution significative de la science
économique depuis 30 ans : Colander
(2002), Colander et al. (2004), Davis (2006,
2008), Kirman et al. (2009)
Les travaux relevant du mainstream ne se
réduisent pas à l’économie néoclassique
Le mainstream se caractérise par une
pluralité de programmes de recherche plus
ou moins compatibles
Notions de « mainstream hétérodoxe » et de
« mainstream pluraliste » (Davis 2008)
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