Matériaux pour une théorie de la structure économique et sociale

SUMMARY definition of the structure can be obtained by two successive approaches The structure then appears as the bill of relations internal or external quantitative or qualitative which describe given economic entirety with double reference In time to delay-periods which may be deteriiiiiied by the irre- versibility and the discontinuity of mutations In space to location-spaces determined by the existence of cor respondences The notion of structure thus denned is lilkely to iiud numerous appli cations for instance structure of the French agriculture at date near our time It allows comparizon with other more or less bordering notions as tlie institutions the frameworks historical or geographical frameworks) the standard the system the datum the ordering cf Eucken An effort following two directions has been made lastly- order to classify concepts npcording to their generality in order also to point out their interrelationsLhomme Jean. Matériaux pour une théorie de la structure économique et sociale. In: Revue économique, volume 5, n°6, 1954. pp. 843-880