L'économie et ses fictions. Entretien avec Gilbert Rist

Abstract

In the last decades, the market has occupied an increasingly greater space within our society—many goods that once were free now require a charge. Yet, in the current situation, one must rethink both the fundamental economic categories (beginning with exchange and property) and the status of economics itself, which is not a science but rather a set of beliefs based on the fiction of the homo oeconomicus.