Quoi de neuf dans les marmites de l’histoire ? Les institutions, l’apprentissage et le développement dans les approches néo-institutionnelles et évolutionnistes en économie

In 1998, P. Dockès remarked that the paradigms of the new institutional economics and the evolutionism in economics were better adapted than the neo-classical theory to a “journey through the time”. The study shows the progression and the inflections which occurred since this diagnosis. The two paradigms converged. The evolutionary program takes now into account the institutions as determining factor of the processes which it studies. Symmetrically, the institutionnalist program attaches more and more importance to cognition and systems of belief of the agents. A dialog between the two programs could be deeper and a bringing together of their analyzes would be likely to improve the conception of the economic change.