The main purpose of this article is to stress the social nature of economic rationality in the works of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. As it will be suggested through some textual evidence, both thinkers believed that individuals and their actions depend on the social, cultural and moral frame...

[eng] The assumptions controversy in the 1870's. The purpose of this paper is to present one aspect of the english "Battle on Method" between the Historical School and the last representatives of the Ricardian Political Economy, reformulated by J.S. Mill. One of the main points of the historist...

Weber recognized explicitly that his concept of ideal-type is directly borrowed from economic theory and as it is commonly admitted from the German-speaking 'marginalist school'. Nevertheless, the construction of ideal-types reminds greatly the definition of economic rationality made by John...