| Titre | Limites et dangers du libéralisme | |
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| Auteur | Hervé Defalvard | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'économie politique |
| Numéro | no 16-17, printemps-automne 1989 Le libéralisme économique. Interprétations et analyses | |
| Page | 205-230 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This paper has two aims : the first is to draw the limits of liberal doctrine, and the second is to point out its dangers when applied beyond those limits.
The limits of liberalism will be seized through its" historical development. We shall have to distinguish between political liberalism (Hobbes and Locke) whose limit is to contain its opposite, namely totalitarism, and economic liberalism (Smith), whose limits are those of the smithian market, namely the artisanial organization of production.
In a second part, it will be shown that a capitalist economy, far from being based upon the egalitarist individual logic of the smithian market, is based upon a hierarchical holist logic ; we shall then identify the solutions imagined, in spite of that gap, to apply economic liberalism to capitalist economies. The dangers of liberalism with respect to individual liberties will thus appear as consequence of this gap, which led in the past to the making of the welfare state and could lead in the future to some national-liberalism. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cep_0154-8344_1989_num_16_1_1084 |
