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    • Preface
    • Overview
  • Political Economy ▾
    • The Economy
    • Commodities
    • The Enterprise
    • Accounting
    • Capital
    • Profit
    • Employment
    • Distribution
    • Wages
    • Interest
    • Prices
    • Money
  • Economic Policies ▾
    • Five main principles
    • Cleaning up the capital market
    • Cleaning up the labor market
    • Liberating civil society
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Home› Part II – Political economy propositions›Chapter 3 - The Enterprise

Chapter 3 – The Enterprise

The effects of the dominant conception of the enterprise resonate incessantly. However, the objective reasons for the existence of this body and its other main specificities have so far too often been ignored. A few observations establish that this repression is neither desirable nor fatal:

  • The enterprise is the only entity that exists only for the practice of economic exchanges.
  • Enterprises are not inevitably enslaved to a maximum to the advantage of their owners or managers. Maximum profit and maximum surplus value are not part of the standards that the market economy obliges enterprises to respect. The goal of maximum profit is useless and dangerous, to consider it imperative is illiberal, the alternative of maximum surplus value is even more questionable. The "social refoundation" without a refoundation of the doctrine of profit comes up against an impossibility.
  • Entrepreneurs have economic responsibilities that are all social.
  • Enterprises are not tax subjects (3.5).
  • Enterprises have two other specificities (3.6, 3.7).
  • Propositions

    • 3.1 The enterprise is the only entity that exists only for the practice of economic exchanges.
    • 3.2 Enterprises are not inevitably enslaved to a maximum to the advantage of their owners or managers.
    • 3.3 An enterprise is a contract, organized by a natural or legal person: the entrepreneur.
    • 3.4 The main responsibilities of entrepreneurs are economic and, in so doing, social.
    • 3.5 Although they are used to collect tax revenues, enterprises are not tax subjects.
    • 3.6 Only enterprises sell composite commodities.
    • 3.7 4. Elementary commodities that can only be purchased by enterprises are the savings in their capital.
    • 3.8 Anyone who rents out constitutes an enterprise.

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