1. MACHIAVELLI BEFORE PARETO: FOXES, LIONS, AND THE SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM AS THE RESULT OF NON-LOGICAL ACTIONS
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Claire Baldin, Ludovic Ragni, Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion (GREDEG), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), and H2P2S
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060106 history of social sciences ,JEL: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925/B.B1.B15 - Historical • Institutional • Evolutionary ,0507 social and economic geography ,JEL: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925/B.B1.B13 - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Stockholm School) ,050701 cultural studies ,Fortuna ,Politics ,JEL: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches ,History and Philosophy of Science ,JEL: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B4 - Economic Methodology/B.B4.B41 - Economic Methodology ,0601 history and archaeology ,Free trade ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,General Arts and Humanities ,JEL: Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology ,05 social sciences ,Pareto principle ,Institutional economics ,06 humanities and the arts ,Neoclassical economics ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,16. Peace & justice ,Protectionism ,Ophelimity ,Moment (mathematics) ,JEL: Z - Other Special Topics ,JEL: Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z0 - General ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance - Abstract
This article examines the way Vilfredo Pareto addresses the dynamics of social equilibrium and the evolution of economic institutions based on the principle of the rupture of the Machiavellian Moment. In the first part, we analyze why and how Pareto’s categories(residues, derivations, interests, \social heterogeneity, logical actions, andnon-logical1actions)borrow from those of Machiavelli(virtù, fortuna, corruptio, andordine)to define various forms of the Machiavellian Moment. In the second part, we show that this borrowing allows Pareto to explain: (i) the evolution of political equilibriums, from the distinction the author makes between “Maximum of utility FOR a community in sociology” and “Maximum of ophelimity FOR a community in political economy”; and (ii) the alternative between free trade and protectionism.
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- 2019
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