----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Centre d'Etudes des Mutations Européennes (CEME) International symposium "The legitimization of economic discourse" Friday 8 and Saturday 9, June 2001 Organized by : Bernard Maris, Professor, IEE, University of Paris 8 Philippe Jeannin, Professor, University of Toulouse 3 Administrative coordination : Colette Le Hénaff Institut d'études européennes Scientific committee : Alain Alcouffe (Univ. Toulouse 1), Jean-Pierre Boissin (Univ. Grenoble), Jean-Yves Caro (Univ. Paris 2), Gilles Dostaler (Uqam, Montréal), Pierre Dockès (Univ. Lyon 2), Olivier Favereau (Univ. Paris X), Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas (Princeton University), François Fourquet (Univ. Paris 8), Frédéric Lordon (Cepremap), François Morin (Univ. Toulouse 1), André Orléan (ENS Paris), Dominique Plihon (Univ. Paris XIII), Michel Rainelli (Univ. de Nice) Topic : Economics, as a science, constructs itself by building concepts which are legitimized by the scientific community of economists.Thus, the history of economic science highlights the broad stages of its construction as an autonomous discipline, its maturation, and self-autonomy in the working of an original formal and conceptual apparatus. But economics, as a common language of business and consumption, is also used - whether valorised or devalorised - by media and economic agents in their daily practice. In such a way that the borders between (legitimate) scientific economics and (illegitimate) vulgar or opinion economics are blurred as the two levels of economic discourse overlap and interact. The symposium will gather economists as well as scholars from various disciplines, law and sociology amongst others, who will contribute to cast light on the term "legitimization". Three prospects will be followed : 1. analysis of the construction of economics into a science from the starting point of its genesis and its endeavours to build itself into an autonomous science, of the genealogy of concepts like "rationality", "rational anticipation". 2. analysis of the legitimation of economic discourse by scientific channels (academic journals, think tanks...) and academic communities. 3. analysis of the borders and interactions between scientific (learned/academic) discourse/ expert discourse and opinion or media discourse. Papers should be sent before 15 October 2000 to : Bernard Maris / Colette Le Hénaff: Institut d'études européennes Université Paris 8 2, rue de la Liberté 93526 - Saint-Denis cedex Tél: 33 (0)1 49 40 66 69 Fax: 33 (0)1 49 40 65 94 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Philippe Jeannin: "L'Imaginaire" 11, place Saintes-Scarbes 31000 - Toulouse Tél: 33 (0)5 61 25 58 91 Fax: 33 (0)5 61 55 30 69 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Further information about the Institute of European Studies and the symposium is available on its website : http//iee2.batb1.univ-paris8.fr ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]