Serge Latouche

Serge Latouche (born with Valves the January 12th 1940) is a economist French.

Activities

Serge Latouche is one of the " contributors historiques" re-examined MAUSS, professor emeritus with the Faculty of Law, Economy and Management Jean Monnet (Seals) of the university of Paris-XI. He is director of the Groupe of Research in Anthropology, Épistémologie and Economy of Poverty (GRAEEP).

Work

Very influenced by work of François Partant, Serge Latouche is founding member and former president of association “the horizon”, whose objective is to continue the reflection that François Partant expressed in his books and his articles.

General-purpose in the social sciences, it developed a very critical theory towards the economic orthodoxy, denounces the economism, the Utilitarisme in social sciences and the concept of Développement. He criticizes in particular through a theoretical argumentation and a nourished empirical approach of many examples, the concepts of effectiveness and economic Rationalité S.

He is one of the most known partisans of the bearable Décroissance (or convivial decrease ) and tries within various collectives to conceptualize the After-development.

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