La comparaison des secteurs non lucratifs américain et français commence par un état des lieux en 1995. Les données empiriques strictement comparables sont interprétées par les ideal-types libéral anglo-saxon et partenarial européen de bien-être. Dans un deuxième temps, on analyse...

Theories of justice in the spirit of Rawls and Harsanyi argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society as if in the original position, that is, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social positions. In this paper, we provide a fairly...

This paper argues that mainstream economic the- ory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, o ers striking arguments showing quite the opposite: pro t maximization cannot be a legitimate prioritar- ian goal for private rms. This opens the door for a...

This paper provides a new framework for monetary macro-policy, where the Central Bank potentially intervenes both on short-term and long-term loans markets, and can do this alternatively by manipulating interest rates or money supply. Following Bonnisseau and Orntangar (2010) and Giraud and...

Extractive industries face two main challenges in terms of CSR and poverty reduction: 1) recognize that societal activity is part of their core business; 2) take part in socio-economic projects that contribute to their stakeholders' empowerment and not only to their living conditions. Based on...

Extractive industries face two main challenges in terms of CSR and poverty reduction : 1) recognize that societal activity is part of their core business ; 2) take part in socio-economic projects that contribute to their stakeholders' empowerment and not only to their living conditions. Based on...

This paper argues that mainstream economic theory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, offers striking arguments showing quite the opposite : profit-maximization cannot be a legitimate goal for private firms. This opens the door for a widening of a...

The European Union in its widening movement shows five clusters of Third sector organisations with complex bonds and ties with the surrounding societies and national identities In introduction, we compare briefly the Europe's Third sector features to North America's ones (Historical and...

En décembre 2008, le BIT a recommandé d'adjoindre à l'Enquête Emploi un bref questionnaire pour mesurer le travail bénévole. L'article examine en premier lieu les faiblesses méthodologiques des enquêtes sur le bénévolat en France et dans quelques pays anglo-saxons pour montrer la...

Après une présentation sommaire de l'histoire de l'économie sociale en France, le papier retrace l'origine du projet de compte satellite de l'économie sociale et montre que les coopératives, mutuelles, associations et fondations sont invisibles dans le cadre central des comptes nationaux....