Labor as exchange in Saint-Exupéry: Thinking about how the three dimensions of labor are linked

Abstract This article focuses on the contributions to management of the conception of labor in Saint-Exupéry’s Citadelle. Having presented the “hermeneutic schema” (Sabot 2002), which establishes the methodological framework, labor as exchange in management is briefly presented so that Saint-Exupéry’s vision of work as exchange then appears in all its originality. Here, the worker exchanges his or … Continue reading Labor as exchange in Saint-Exupéry: Thinking about how the three dimensions of labor are linked

Analogies and justice in exchange

In the Aristotelian tradition, justice in exchange or just price is established by owners of goods through a discussion and a logic of analogy. For them justice is not defined by equality but constitutes a qualitative relationship, obtained by comparison with an quantitative equality.