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Economistes ruraux et essais de prospective

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  • G. Severac

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[fre] Les économistes ruraux sont en situation d'observateurs des possibilités et des limites des sociétés industrielles. Mais la complexité de leur objet d'étude des met en garde contre les généralisations trop rapides et ils ont tendance à se défier des prises de positions tranchées. . Après avoir critiqué les mythes qui se développent autour des thèmes de la pollution industrielle ou de la réforme des unités de production, l'auteur critique les mythes scientistes eux-mêmes et insiste sur le fait que les sciences sont des créations humaines destinées à servir des projets humains. . Toutefois, la puissance que donnent les systèmes appuyés sur les sciences ne peut elle-même être contrôlée qu'à partir d'une connaissance scienfique effective ; les économistes ruraux sont alors appelés à apporter leur contribution à une épistémologie qui soit elle-même une science expérimentale. [eng] Agricultural economists and Industrial Societies - Agricultural economists are observers of the possibilities and the limits of Industrial Societies. But the complexity of the subject of their study leads them to beware of too sweeping generalisations and they tend to mistrut the taking up of too categorial stands. . After criticising the myths growing up around the themes of pollution or of the reform of production units, the author criticises « scientist » myths themselves and stresses the fact that sciences are human creations to serve human designs. . Nevertheless, the power derived from systems backed up by the sciences can be controlled only by real scientific knowledge ; agricultural economists are then called upon make their contribution to an epistemology which is itself an experimental science.

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  • G. Severac, 1973. "Economistes ruraux et essais de prospective," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 96(1), pages 17-23.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1973_num_96_1_2208
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1973.2208
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