The tension between « structural moment » and « hermeneutic » moment in the Institutionalist Political Economy Paul Ricœur and the “French Heterodox Touch”

This article tries to enlight the epistemological specificity of “Institutionnalist Political Economy” (IPE) (Caillé, Boyer, Favereau) by developing, from Paul Ricœur lecture of Marx, the notion of “institutionnalist circle” as a tension between “structural moment” and “hermeneutic moment”. This problematic allows us to contribute to a research avenue: in the trail of the dialogue between Conventions and Regulation, that of the construction of a theory of actor in economics which assumes, without reducing it in the opposition between the Subject and the Structure, the intrinsic tension which characterizes the human condition in the social-historic field and which, according to us, really characterizes the “I” of IPE.