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There is a basic opposition between a theory of equilibrium and a theory of evolution in dealing with the question of labor and employment. The one claims that an optimal state of the economy and of society, to which the fluidity of jobs and the flexibility of wages would be coupled, exists and is known beforehand. The other maintains that the search for the solidity of jobs and the viscosity of wages only makes sense in terms of the consequences that one expects in terms of the viability of an evolution whose contours it is not possible to know a priori. This opposition actually reveals distinct philosophies of knowledge, one referring to a preexisting reality, the other attentive to experience without a priori.
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Gaffard, JL. (2023). Antecedents in Labor Economics. In: Bergé, JS. (eds) The A Priori Method in the Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38260-4_8
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