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Du modèle économique de Spence à la nouvelle sociologie économique de White

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

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Cet article s'intéresse à la façon dont un sociologue, fondateur de ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui la « New Economie Sociology », Harrison White, a repris presque à l'identique le modèle d'un économiste, Michael Spence, sur les relations employeurs / employés en situation d'asymétrie d'information et ce, afin de bâtir son propre modèle des marchés.

Il s'agit plus précisément de montrer que cet emprunt (méthodologique) cache en réalité des différences plus profondes entre les deux auteurs, et de déterminer dans quelle mesure il peut donner un éclairage nouveau concernant les rapports entre économie et sociologie.

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This paper examines the way in which Harisson White (the sociologist, founder of the american « New Economic Sociology »), has borrowed from the economist, Michael Spence, his model of the employer/employee relationship in asymmetric information situations, and built his own model of markets from it.

More precisely, we show that the apparent similarity (introduced by the methodological element borrowed from Spence) actually hides deep differences between the two authors, and we attempt to determine to what extent it can shed some new light on the relationships between economics and sociology.

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market economic modeleconomic sociologysocial networksL11A14modèle de marchéssociologie économiqueréseaux sociauxL11A14
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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , 2007 , pp. 423 - 448
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 2007 

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PHARE, université Paris et CERESG.

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