This article examines the way Pareto addresses the dynamic of social equilibrium and the evolution of economic institutions based on the principle of rupture of the Machiavellian Moment. In the first part, we analyse why and how Pareto's categories (residues, derivation, interests and social heterogeneity, logical actions and non-logical actions) borrow from those of Machiavelli (virtù, fortuna, corruption and ordine), to define various forms of 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.
This article examines the way Pareto addresses the dynamic of social equilibrium and the evolution of economic institutions based on the principle of rupture of the Machiavellian Moment. In the first part, we analyse why and how Pareto's categories (residues, derivation, interests and social heterogeneity, logical actions and non-logical actions) borrow from those of Machiavelli (virtù, fortuna, corruption and ordine), to define various forms of 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.
Titre
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Machiavelli before Pareto: Foxes, Lions and the Social Equilibrium as a result of a Non-logical Actions
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Machiavel avant Pareto: Renards, Lions et Équilibre social comme résultat d'actions non-logiques
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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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, Wicksellian)
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925/B.B1.B15 - Historical • Institutional • Evolutionary
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B4 - Economic Methodology/B.B4.B41 - Economic Methodology
Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z0 - General/Z.Z0.Z00 - General
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Mots-clés
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Pareto, Machiavelli, Machiavellian Moment, Social Equilibrium, Rationality, History of Economic Thought
Ludovic Ragni, Claire Baldin. Machiavelli before Pareto: Foxes, Lions and the Social Equilibrium as a result of a Non-logical Actions. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, inPress, 41 (2), pp.187-208. ⟨halshs-01708579⟩