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Accumulation et destruction de la confiance : un schéma d'inspiration poppérienne

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  • SALMON, Pierre

    (LATEC - Université de Bourgogne)

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Lorsque, à la suite des autres sciences sociales, les économistes s'intéressent au mécanisme de la confiance, ils mettent en général au premier plan la recherche d'une justification ou d'un fondement au faire confiance, le point de départ implicite du processus auquel ils pensent étant la confiance zéro ou la défiance. Au contraire, le présent papier, s'inspirant de la philosophie de Popper, propose, comme point de départ à la confiance, une décision individuelle associée à ce que Popper appelle une conjecture, c'est-à-dire une sorte de théorie, sur la façon dont celui auquel on fait (potentiellement) confiance "fonctionne". La conjecture ne requiert pas de justification mais seulement le test de ses implications. A son tour, la décision de faire ou de ne pas faire confiance n'est pas le reflet mécanique ou passif du degré de corroboration de la conjecture, à fortiori d'un quelconque degré de croyance ou de probabilité. Dans l'esprit de l'asymétrie poppérienne, le papier explique la diminution de la confiance essentiellement en termes épistémologiques mais son augmentation à la fois en termes épistémologiques et par l'accumulation d'un capital de connaissance spécifique à la relation. / When, following other social sciences, economists address the mechanism of trust, they typically focus on the search of a justification or a foundation for trusting, the implicit starting point of the process they have in mind being zero trust, or distrust. By contrast, the present paper, inspired by the philosophy of Popper, suggests, as a starting point for trust, an individual decision associated with what Popper calls a conjecture - that is, a kind of theory - on how the individual (potentially) trusted "functions". The conjecture requires no justification but only the test of its implications. In turn, the decision to trust or to distrust does not reflect in a mechanical or passive way the extent to which the conjecture is corroborated, a fortiori any kind of degree of belief or of probability. In the spirit of Popperian asymmetry, the paper explains decreasing trust essentially in epistemological terms but increasing trust both in epistemological terms and by the building-up of knowledge capital specific to the relation.

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  • SALMON, Pierre, 2000. "Accumulation et destruction de la confiance : un schéma d'inspiration poppérienne," LATEC - Document de travail - Economie (1991-2003) 2000-11, LATEC, Laboratoire d'Analyse et des Techniques EConomiques, CNRS UMR 5118, Université de Bourgogne.
  • Handle: RePEc:lat:lateco:2000-11
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    Keywords

    confiance; relations interpersonnelles ; Popper ; trust ; interpersonal relations;
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    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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