scholarly journals LE DROIT PENAL DES AFFAIRES ET ASSAINISSEMENT DES ACTIVITES ECONOMIQUES EN RDC

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (04) ◽  
pp. 321-337
Author(s):  
KASONGO CEDRIC Christian
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

Généralement en économie classique, une idée est parfois admise, selon laquelle, « l’Economie n’a pas besoin du Droit pour se gérer ou pour faire ses preuves » Autrement « l’Economie n’a pas de morale ». Dans cette même ligne, la fable de BERNARD MANDEVILLE vient donner effet positif à cette pensée car celle-ci se résume dans le fait que « les vices prives font les biens publics et la vertu condamne la société à la pauvreté »[1] ; d’où il faut laisser faire les commerçants et les opérateurs économiques… Cette idée est complétée par une théorie développée par le célèbre économiste ADAM SMITH, « La théorie de la main invisible », celle-ci accompagnée de la logique libérale, voudrait « qu’il faut laisser-faire les vices qui favorisent le bien-être commun ou l’intérêt général »[2]. Il ajoute dans la même logique que le marché n’a pas besoin des règles de droit car le marché s’autorégule… car le principe universel des activités économiques est basé sur la liberté de commerce et de l’industrie, qui sont aussi à leur tour résumé dans la liberté d’entreprendre. Les activités économiques, bien que s’autorégulant, mais menées par l’homme pour l’homme, nécessitent au-delà de la logique libérale un certain ordre. Cet ordre est en effet apporté par le Droit Pénal Economique. D’où, bien que l’économie libérale exclut dans le domaine de l’économie la présence du Droit Pénal Economique car ce denier se présente comme un obstacle aux activités économiques, il faut constater aussi que cette logique libérale devient complète lorsqu’elle est adjointe à un minimum de morale et d’éthique, car l’ordre public économique et la libre concurrence comme piliers de l’économie imposent le respect d’un certain nombre de principes. Ce respect est assuré par le Droit Pénal Economique. L’ordre étant par essence un noyau du développement, on comprend logiquement que dans son rôle d’Etat gendarme, l’Etat a toutes les raisons d’intervenir dans le domaine économique par un Droit pénal spécial spécialisée qu’est le Droit pénal des Affaires.

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF A “SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM” IN UPPER GERMANY: LEONHARD FRONSPERGER’S “ON THE PRAISE OF SELF-INTEREST”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Rainer Klump ◽  
Lars Pilz
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

In 1564, Leonhard Fronsperger, a military expert and citizen of the Free Imperial City of Ulm in Upper Germany, publishes the booklet “On the Praise of Self-Interest” (“Von dem Lob deß Eigen Nutzen”). Using the form of a satirical poem, he demonstrates how the individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to the common good. Writing long before Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith, Fronsperger presents a thorough analysis of all kinds of self-interested social, political, and economic relations. His praise of self-interest demonstrates how, over the sixteenth century, the interplay of economic success (in particular in major trading cities), a more realistic conception of human behavior, and some aspects of humanism and the Reformation led to a new understanding of the origins of economic dynamics. This becomes the basis for what Max Weber ([1904–05] 2009) would later term “the spirit of capitalism.”

scholarly journals Bernard Mandeville and the 'economy' of the Dutch

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bick
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
Dutch History ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

Studies of Bernard Mandeville by economists and historians of economic thought have focused overwhelmingly on the problem of situating his work within the development of the theory of laissez-faire and evaluating his influence on major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment, especially Adam Smith. This paper explores Mandeville's economic thought through the lens of a very different transition: England's rapid growth following the Glorious Revolution and its gradual eclipse of Dutch economic hegemony. By situating Mandeville within an Anglo-Dutch context and carefully examining his comments on the Dutch in Remark Q of The fable of the bees, the paper shows the manner in which Mandeville's ideas both appropriated lessons from Dutch history and sought to revise ideas about the Dutch current among his English contemporaries. The paper thus sheds new light on core concepts in Mandeville's economic thought and permits exploration of an important moment in the development of political economy.

scholarly journals Pandemia e Política

NAU Social ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Maria Elisabete Pereira dos Santos ◽  
Renata Alvarez Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Wilhelm Reich ◽  
Bernard Mandeville ◽  
Friedrich Hayek ◽  
Richard Sennett

<p class="Corpo">Este texto passeia por alguns dilemas da nossa política em tempos de pandemia. Recorre a Albert Camus e a pensadores clássicos no campo do liberalismo, como Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith e Friedrich Hayek, para discutir o significado, em tempos idos e nos dias de hoje, da exacerbação da tese da liberdade individual, em contextos de crise sanitária. Hannah Arendt, Richard Sennett e Wilhelm Reich, com Zé Ninguém, ajuda-nos a refletir sobre a complexa associação entre pandemia, autoritarismo e neofascismo. O texto recorre ainda a Lilia Schwarcz e a Jessé de Souza, com o objetivo de explicitar as raízes escravistas e autoritárias da sociedade brasileira. A discussão estrutura-se a partir da recorrência a textos dos referidos autores e conclui pela necessidade, no atual contexto de esquecimento da política, ataque à democracia liberal burguesa e hegemonia de forças políticas de extrema direita, nestes tempos de Zé Ninguém, de reinventar a esfera pública, a politica e o futuro.</p>

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF A “SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM” IN UPPER GERMANY: LEONHARD FRONSPERGER’S (1564) “ON THE PRAISE OF SELF-INTEREST”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Klump ◽  
Lars Pilz
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
The Common ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

In 1564 Leonhard Fronsperger, a military expert and citizen of the Free Imperial City of Ulm in Upper Germany, publishes a booklet “On the Praise of Self-Interest” (“Von dem Lob deß Eigen Nutzen”). Using the form of a satirical poem, he demonstrates how the individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to the common good. Writing long before Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith, Fronsperger presents a thorough analysis of all kinds of self-interested social, political and economic relations. His praise of self-interest demonstrates how over the sixteenth century the interplay of economic success (in particular in major trading cities), amore realistic conception of human behavior and some aspects of Humanism and the Reformation led to a new understanding of the origins of economic dynamics. This became the basis for what Weber (1904-05/2009) would later term “the spirit of capitalism”.

A Better Way Forward

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Osborne
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
General Public ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Renaissance ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

There is a long history of condemning merchants as agents of social disorder and little advocacy of free commerce as essential to ensure the proper allocation of efforts across economic activities and promote socioeconomic improvements. This began to change with both Aquinas and thinkers in the late Renaissance in Spain asking different questions about how producers could be induced to provide goods in a way that benefits society. The contributions of Bernard Mandeville, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and, Adam Smith are sketched. By the end of the nineteenth century, much of the general public and even political leaders in Europe and North America believed in the virtues of the self-regulating socioeconomy. Through colonialism and observation of the “modern” West’s seemingly obvious successes, people and societies around the world began in ever-larger numbers to believe as well. But such widespread confidence was not to last.

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS FROM THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT TO CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ai-Thu Dang
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bernard Mandeville

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we show that some theoretical continuities exist between the approaches of Bernard Mandeville, Adam Ferguson, and Adam Smith to the division of labor and the contemporary analyses of technical change and economic dynamics, which consider innovation as a process of technological creation. We thus offer a further exploration of the origins of evolutionary ideas in the history of evolutionary economics. Second, despite the existence of these theoretical continuities, we highlight the differences between the Scottish Enlightenment authors and the modern evolutionary economists on the issue of temporality and the place of history in their reflections.

Adam Smith in Context

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas Montes
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith
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