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André Orléan

André Orléan is an economist, Research Director at CNRS (France) and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France).
He has just published L’empire de la valeur. Refonder l’économie (Seuil, 2011) that offers a new approach to the value in economics. It is one of four co-authors of the Manifeste d’économistes atterrés (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2010). He is President of the French Association of Political Economy (AFEP) which advocates pluralism in education and research in economics.
He has also published:
De l’euphorie à la panique : penser la crise financière (Rue d’Ulm, 2009),
La monnaie entre violence et confiance (Odile Jacob, 2002, en collaboration avec Michel Aglietta),
Le pouvoir de la finance (Odile Jacob, 1999),
La violence de la monnaie (PUF, 1981, en coll. avec Michel Aglietta).
He directed: La monnaie souveraine (Odile Jacob, 1998), Analyse économique des conventions (PUF, 2004), Evolutionary Economics (Springer, 2006, en collaboration avec Jacques Lesourne et Bernard Walliser).

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Individual Judgments, Social Values, and Mimetic Interactions

Paper Conference paper | By André Orléan | Apr 2013

The problem of value has always occupied a central place in economic thought and debate.