Convention and Intersubjectivity

New Developments in French Economics

Bibliographic Data

ID8975336
AuthorsJohn Latsis (European University Institute, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume36
Issue3
Pages255-277
Publication date2006-08-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-5914.2006.00307.x
OpenAlexW2119412119
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited41

The recently formed French School of the “économie des conventions” have claimed that they are developing a revolutionary new approach to the social sciences. This group of researchers in economics, philosophy, sociology, law and history attempt to transcend the inherited analytical frameworks of structural‐functionalist sociology and neoclassical economics and provide an alternative picture of the social world. This article will investigate some of these claims in detail. First, I trace the cohesion of the Convention School's ideas around the key concept of convention. Conventionalist theory reflects an ontological shift towards the recognition of intersubjectivity. This shift leads to tension between the advocacy of methodological individualism on the one hand and the use of convention as a central analytical category on the other

Cohesion (chemistry · Convention · Epistemology · Individualism · Intersubjectivity · Methodological individualism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy

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