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Quelques critiques de la rationalité économique dans l'incertain

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[fre] La rationalité désignatrice des « meilleures » actions à sélectionner, telle que la pensée économique l'a progressivement dégagée, soulève des problèmes considérables dès lors que les avenirs possibles sont caractérisés comme incertains. Cet article montre, après quelques rappels historiques, que ces difficultés conduisent à remettre en cause non seulement l'hypothèse d'utilité espérée, mais le contenu même du concept de rationalité économique.. Dans une première partie, on tente de donner un exposé, dans -un langage aussi simple que possible, de la synthèse donnée en 1954 par L. J. Savage des deux courants de pensée qui ont inspiré les économistes depuis trois siècles : la tradition de la probabilité personnelle et celle de l'utilité en situation de risque. Dans une seconde partie, les critiques portées aux trois postulats essentiels de la théorie néo-bernoullienne sont expliquées. Les liens qu'entretiennent entre elles ces critiques sont esquissés, ainsi que les propositions alternatives auxquelles elles ont donné le jour. On montre que ces efforts conduisent à des modèles de rationalité limitée et finalement à un concept de rationalité procédurale, au-delà des algorithmes de choix sur lesquels les économistes se sont concentrés jusqu'ici. [eng] theory are explained. The links between these criticisms are sketched, as well as the alternative proposals that they have put forward. It is shown that these efforts lead to bounded rationality models and finally to a concept of procedural rationality, beyond the algorithms of choice on which economists have concentrated up to now.

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  • Bertrand Munier, 1984. "Quelques critiques de la rationalité économique dans l'incertain," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 35(1), pages 65-86.
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