Pierre Dockès is member of the Cercle of the economists.

It is Professor at the university Light-Lyon 2 and researcher in Center A. and L. Walras. Specialist in economy political.

He worked on space in the economic thinking in the authors of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries. Thereafter, founder of the Center Walras, it directed the edition of complete works of has and L Walras (14 vol. at Economica, 1987 2005). Specialist in this author, it especially worked on the epistemology and the social economy of L. Walras (publishing " the company is not a spade nique" , Economica, 1996, and, with J.P. Potter a biography, 2001). Its research was especially centered on the great economic transfers and social in the long history (it was a disciple of F. Braudel. In this direction, he studied the transition from the ancient slave system to the medieval company (medieval release in 1979 and, with J.M. Servet, Sauvages and ensauvagés, 1980). P. Dockès questions the role of the technical and economic factors in this change. On the other hand it clarifies the development of dialectical a socio political endogenous: the generalization of the slave system leading to the depression of the social base of the State and the consequent weakening of the State making impossible the operation of the " microsystem productif" , the traditional villa. It continued its research on slavery in Modern times (in particular " the paradigm sucrier" in the work directed by Célimène and Legris with the editions CNRS, " Economy of slavery colonial").

The interest carried by P. Dockès with the great social and economic changes led it to work with Bernard Rosier on the changes which have affected and affect capitalism. The study of the long rates/rhythms (Kondratiev cycles) was undertaken by these authors in relation to the passage of a capitalist productive order to another (in " Rates/rhythms économiques"). This analysis was extended towards an ambiguous philosophy of the history (" the history ambiguë"), rejettant as well the designs of a walk to the blind man as the theses on the direction and the end of the history. The factors of development are ambivalent in the places and times, the history is ambiguous forging its without with each stage while being turned over on last walk. Thereafter P. Dockès turned to the construction of a political economy of the capacity and authority. On the basis of the report of the lapse of memory of the capacity and authority in economy, he endeavors to build the bases of a new orientation of the economic analysis putting at the center the role of the capacity, of the phenomena of authority, hierarchy and domination, voluntary constraint and " convention of obéissance" (" To be able and authority in économie"). That led P.D. to the analysis " économico-politique" of Thomas Hobbes in several articles.

It has just published the result of its research on universalization. Phenomena of long life, this one accelerates considerably during the first decade of XXIe century. Its consequences are diabolisées as well by the liberals close to the employers' mediums as by anti universalization. The first make a scarecrow of it by explaining why this process can be only catastrophic if the French economy etdélitement does not operate a return towards the competing commercial economy with abandonment of the social model of the role of the State. The seconds frighten the public opinion by describing the catastrophes which, according to them, would be due to the opening of the world. The author, to wrong way, explains that universalization can be gaining for France as for Europe (ex of the Fifteen) if is installation a strategy directed towards the investment, the innovation, the human capital, a strategy which preserves the level of social protection (all while adapting it to universalization) and which, far from wanting to approach to the social structures and the levels of income of the emergent countries by practices of precarisation and reduction of the purchasing power, plays the voluntarist construction of comparative advantages. The social forces, accordingly, should tend to develop, not strategies of defense, but offensive by playing the internationalization of their organization and their combat. The economic policy, in particular the policy keynesienne, must find its panoply and its width, but either on nation, but a whole scale of Europe. From where vital character of a European democratic government.

Works

• "To be able and Authority in economy , Economica, 1999
• " Order and disorders in the economy world , (under the direction of), PUF, 2002
• " Medieval release , 1979
• " The history ambiguë" , 1988
• " The company is not a picnic, L. Walras and the economy sociale" , Economica
• " The Hell, they are not the different ones! " , Descartes & Co, 2007, nominated for the Price of the Readers of the Book of Economy 2007 [http://www.senat.fr/evenement/rendez_vous_citoyens/livreeco_11_07/index.html]

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