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La crise contemporaine, une crise de la modernité technique

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La crise financière et la crise écologique sont les manifestations d’une crise plus globale et profonde, la crise de nos rapports à la nature et à la société, caractérisés par une volonté de maîtrise étendue, une instrumentalisation et une artificialité croissantes. Mais malgré la puissance des outils et techniques modernes, les sociétés sont globalement de plus en plus fragiles, et la recherche de l’efficacité se retourne contre elle-même, engendrant des situations inefficientes voire absurdes. Ce phénomène de contreproductivité, mis en lumière par Ivan Illich dans les années soixante-dix, se repère pareillement dans la sphère financière et dans les relations que l’homme d’aujourd’hui entretient avec la nature. On montre qu’il trouve son origine dans la domination de la rationalité instrumentale et la tendance à l’autonomie de la technique moderne. Puis on en étudie deux expressions particulières. Dans le domaine de la finance, les enchaînements à l’œuvre depuis les subprimes témoignent de la manière dont les outils dévolus à une meilleure gestion des risques ont contribué au contraire à accroître le risque global. D’une façon similaire, le système agricole productiviste qui tend à devenir la norme aujourd’hui engendre de multiples nuisances et effets pervers, qu’on pense résoudre en faisant un pas de plus dans la même direction.

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  • Tordjman, Hélène, 2011. "La crise contemporaine, une crise de la modernité technique," Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation, vol. 10.
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    Keywords

    agriculture et environnement; contreproductivité; crise financière; institutions; agriculture and environment; counterproductivity; financial crisis; institutions; agricultura y medio ambiente; contra-productividad; crisis financiera; instituciones;
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    JEL classification:

    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • P17 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Performance and Prospects

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