Une théorie communicationnelle de la valeur économique : l'approche délibérative
A Communicative Theory of Economic Value: The Deliberative Approach

Summary/Abstract: The orthodox theory of value is one of the dogmas of the justificationregime of capitalism. Yet this theory suffers from many ills. Consequently, it isadvisable to try, in the wake of A. Orléan and F. Perroux, to think of a new theory ofvalue. The work presented here is part of a broader research that we presented in thissame journal four years ago. It aims at inserting the understanding of value into the normative framework of democratic society. Drawing on the methodologicalachievements of contemporary sociology, it proposes to go beyond the Habermasiantheory of deliberation by drawing on work in information and communicationsciences. This interdisciplinary approach makes it possible to go beyond theclassical opposition between subjectivism and holism: values are intersubjective:they are the fruit of deliberation, i.e. contradictory and sensitive communication.Values are the ends, desirable and continuously debated, that a democratic societygives itself in the course of its evolution. Economic value is only one of its desirableand debated ends.

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