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For a long time, commentators (eg, Maurice Roche—Agussol [1918], William Jaffé [1924]. Gaetan Pirou [1939—1943], joseph Schumpeter [1954], Joseph Dorfman [1973], and Philippe Adair [1996]) have noted the existence of similarities between the first institutionalists (Thorstein Veblen. John R. Commons. and Wesley C. Mitchell) and Durk-heimian positive economists (Francois Simiand and Maurice Halbwachs). The objective of this article is to go beyond these remarks, which were made in passing, and to bring together some of the elements that demonstrate the Connections between these EWO groups of economists.

Of course. there are differences both between the two groups and within each of them. For example, it is known that Commons and Veblen differed in their critique of neoclassical economics and in their respective conceptions of economic institutions.‘Likewise. Simiand placed a rather perceptible …