Les limites de la performativité des énoncés en économie. Les apports de John Searle

Abstract

The problematic of performativity has recently fostered numerous criticisms and debates about the status of the economic discourse. Indeed the affirmation that the economist shapes the world by describing it could lead to the subjectivist idea that each theory can in fine be ‘true’ and each theory can perform the social world in its specific way. This work clarifies this problematic in connecting it with the institutional theory of John Searle. We define performativity as a particular type of assignment of function. Finally, this enables us to show that performativity is limited by two kinds of factors: raw facts and social facts.

Keywords

• performativity
• Searle (John)
• institutions