The trading of economists and the construction of a "market" symbolic order

Abstract

The training of economists, wether "professionals" (within universities, public administration, professional organizations or businesses) or simply "economics graduates" (in various sectors: primarily in the bank, finance and administration) contributes to the construction of a symbolic order centered on the market. Through its action, the market becomes an obvious social reality and is constructed as quasi-natural - its "laws" are seen as necessary by all social actors, political actors in particular - ; it is formatted symbolically and promoted by the actors of a scientific discipline which socializes the dominant players, and it serves, from now on, as the universe of reference for political institutions, administrative and economic.