Paper's abstract

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, The Model of the market
Economic law build itself around the liberal market and tends to insure its effectiveness, in a serving attitude towards it. Even if the liberal market is often presented as a fact with which one cannot compromise, it constitutes an invention of a philosophical and political nature. This autosufficiency is stressed by the power the market has to ignore what is heterogeneous to itself, within itself, such as the internal organisation of a firm or the mechanism of convention, or outside itself, the market carrying out the elimination of politics and the ignorance of the social. Finally, this supremacy rests on what is displayed as the "law of the market", a new natural law leading to the concentration of powers and the elimination of the weak, and on the capacity of the market to accompany with sanctions any detrimental behaviour through a law on market essentially repressive and which not without connections with the classical theories of social defence.

Key Words : market, liberal, convention
t. 40, 1995 : p. 286-313

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