Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.  His many works include Outline of a Theory of Practice, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, The Rules of Art, The Logic of Practice and Pascalian Meditations.

• Editorial note Lecture of 1 April 1993 Preamble: rethinking the problems of economics - The theory of rational action - The dehistoricization of economic universes and behaviour - The case of the gift - The phenomenological approach to the gift (Derrida) - The anthropological analysis of the gift - Reintegrating lived experience and creating theory of practice - The destruction of time in science - The scholastic point of view Lecture of 8 April 1993 Questions from the audience: the audacity of philosophers - The error of projecting the counter-gift into the gift - Overcoming the subjectivist and objectivist visions of the gift - Three differences - Discouraging the spirit of calculation in pre-capitalist economies - Economic dispositions and collective repression - Enchanted economic relations - The foundations of collective misrecognition - The nostalgia for lost paradises Lecture of 29 April 1993Obeying  the rules and  self-deception - The economics of symbolic wealth - Forgetting the historical and economic conditions of economic behaviour - The rise of calculabilityLecture of 6 May 1993Symbolic revolutions and the overthrowing of categories - The co-genesis of the economic world and economic discourse - The universal falsehood of the calculating mind - The model of exchange - Challenge and  attack by contempt - Collective expectations (1) - The gift and power - Collective expectations (2) Lecture of 13 May 1993The symbolic economy and the limitations of economic economics - The construction of lasting relations through symbolic exchange - Permanently recreating belief - The myth of the imperialism of the market and resistance to commercialization - The symbolic dimension of economic relations, the example of the labour contract - Symbolic logic in consumption - The economic conditions of rational behaviour Lecture of 27 May 1993 Sociologists and economists - An a-historical reductivism - A double dehistoricization - For a historicist rationalism - The definition of the market - The historical conditions of pure theory Lecture of 3 June 1993 The impossible definition of the market - Economic theory against itself - The economic field as a field of forces - The immanent tendencies of the economic field - The effect of distinction and competition Lecture of 10 June 1993The notion of the market in Max Weber - The indirect conflict - Harrison White’s model - Homology and second-degree choice for consumers - A three-fold break with Weber - The State creates the market: the example of the market in private housing Lecture of 17 June 1993 Questions from the audience - Classification struggles in the economic field - The three postulates of homo oeconomicus - First alternative: the individual and the collective - (Socially) limited rationality - Second alternative: purposiveness and mechanism - The purposive illusion - Third alternative: the micro and the macro Situating the lectures on ‘The social foundations of economic action’ in the works of Pierre BourdieuJulien Duval Postface: Economics and the social sciencesRobert Boyer Appendix: Summary of the lectures as published in the Annals of the Collège de France NotesIndex

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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.  His many works include Outline of a Theory of Practice, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, The Rules of Art, The Logic of Practice and Pascalian Meditations.

• Editorial note Lecture of 1 April 1993 Preamble: rethinking the problems of economics - The theory of rational action - The dehistoricization of economic universes and behaviour - The case of the gift - The phenomenological approach to the gift (Derrida) - The anthropological analysis of the gift - Reintegrating lived experience and creating theory of practice - The destruction of time in science - The scholastic point of view Lecture of 8 April 1993 Questions from the audience: the audacity of philosophers - The error of projecting the counter-gift into the gift - Overcoming the subjectivist and objectivist visions of the gift - Three differences - Discouraging the spirit of calculation in pre-capitalist economies - Economic dispositions and collective repression - Enchanted economic relations - The foundations of collective misrecognition - The nostalgia for lost paradises Lecture of 29 April 1993Obeying  the rules and  self-deception - The economics of symbolic wealth - Forgetting the historical and economic conditions of economic behaviour - The rise of calculabilityLecture of 6 May 1993Symbolic revolutions and the overthrowing of categories - The co-genesis of the economic world and economic discourse - The universal falsehood of the calculating mind - The model of exchange - Challenge and  attack by contempt - Collective expectations (1) - The gift and power - Collective expectations (2) Lecture of 13 May 1993The symbolic economy and the limitations of economic economics - The construction of lasting relations through symbolic exchange - Permanently recreating belief - The myth of the imperialism of the market and resistance to commercialization - The symbolic dimension of economic relations, the example of the labour contract - Symbolic logic in consumption - The economic conditions of rational behaviour Lecture of 27 May 1993 Sociologists and economists - An a-historical reductivism - A double dehistoricization - For a historicist rationalism - The definition of the market - The historical conditions of pure theory Lecture of 3 June 1993 The impossible definition of the market - Economic theory against itself - The economic field as a field of forces - The immanent tendencies of the economic field - The effect of distinction and competition Lecture of 10 June 1993The notion of the market in Max Weber - The indirect conflict - Harrison White’s model - Homology and second-degree choice for consumers - A three-fold break with Weber - The State creates the market: the example of the market in private housing Lecture of 17 June 1993 Questions from the audience - Classification struggles in the economic field - The three postulates of homo oeconomicus - First alternative: the individual and the collective - (Socially) limited rationality - Second alternative: purposiveness and mechanism - The purposive illusion - Third alternative: the micro and the macro Situating the lectures on ‘The social foundations of economic action’ in the works of Pierre BourdieuJulien Duval Postface: Economics and the social sciencesRobert Boyer Appendix: Summary of the lectures as published in the Annals of the Collège de France NotesIndex

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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.  His many works include Outline of a Theory of Practice, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, The Rules of Art, The Logic of Practice and Pascalian Meditations.

• Editorial note Lecture of 1 April 1993 Preamble: rethinking the problems of economics - The theory of rational action - The dehistoricization of economic universes and behaviour - The case of the gift - The phenomenological approach to the gift (Derrida) - The anthropological analysis of the gift - Reintegrating lived experience and creating theory of practice - The destruction of time in science - The scholastic point of view Lecture of 8 April 1993 Questions from the audience: the audacity of philosophers - The error of projecting the counter-gift into the gift - Overcoming the subjectivist and objectivist visions of the gift - Three differences - Discouraging the spirit of calculation in pre-capitalist economies - Economic dispositions and collective repression - Enchanted economic relations - The foundations of collective misrecognition - The nostalgia for lost paradises Lecture of 29 April 1993Obeying  the rules and  self-deception - The economics of symbolic wealth - Forgetting the historical and economic conditions of economic behaviour - The rise of calculabilityLecture of 6 May 1993Symbolic revolutions and the overthrowing of categories - The co-genesis of the economic world and economic discourse - The universal falsehood of the calculating mind - The model of exchange - Challenge and  attack by contempt - Collective expectations (1) - The gift and power - Collective expectations (2) Lecture of 13 May 1993The symbolic economy and the limitations of economic economics - The construction of lasting relations through symbolic exchange - Permanently recreating belief - The myth of the imperialism of the market and resistance to commercialization - The symbolic dimension of economic relations, the example of the labour contract - Symbolic logic in consumption - The economic conditions of rational behaviour Lecture of 27 May 1993 Sociologists and economists - An a-historical reductivism - A double dehistoricization - For a historicist rationalism - The definition of the market - The historical conditions of pure theory Lecture of 3 June 1993 The impossible definition of the market - Economic theory against itself - The economic field as a field of forces - The immanent tendencies of the economic field - The effect of distinction and competition Lecture of 10 June 1993The notion of the market in Max Weber - The indirect conflict - Harrison White’s model - Homology and second-degree choice for consumers - A three-fold break with Weber - The State creates the market: the example of the market in private housing Lecture of 17 June 1993 Questions from the audience - Classification struggles in the economic field - The three postulates of homo oeconomicus - First alternative: the individual and the collective - (Socially) limited rationality - Second alternative: purposiveness and mechanism - The purposive illusion - Third alternative: the micro and the macro Situating the lectures on ‘The social foundations of economic action’ in the works of Pierre BourdieuJulien Duval Postface: Economics and the social sciencesRobert Boyer Appendix: Summary of the lectures as published in the Annals of the Collège de France NotesIndex

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