Publications

Partnerships with social economy: an alternative to PPPs?

This paper examines the potential of Public-Social Partnerships (PSPPs) as an alternative to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for delivering public projects in Canada. Although PPSEs are increasingly being adopted by different levels of government, there is still little research on their ability to overcome the limitations of PPPs in terms of participation and social responsibility.

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Un breve esquema de tres modelos de planificación democrática

Construire l’économie postcapitaliste

Ce qui est mort et ce qui est vivant dans la planification économique

Integration of approaches to social metabolism into democratic economic planning models

Five Criteria to Evaluate Democratic Economic Planning Models

Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment

Using the Market Basket Measure to Discuss Income Inequality from the Perspective of Basic Needs

Emancipatory Social Innovation: Neo-Polanyian Theoretical Foundations (CJNSER / ReCROES paper)

Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons: The Food Services Modernization Initiative

Les « besoins »: une notion à redéfinir?

The notion of “needs” appears in a multitude of scientific fields, but there is little review of the literature on the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. We propose to distinguish two main approaches to this notion: the first recognizes the existence of “absolute” or “objective” needs, while the second groups together perspectives that can be described as “relativistic”. Finally, we conclude with some thoughts on how to think about the articulation of needs and democratic processes.

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A brief sketch of three models of democratic economic planning

Between 1988 and 1993 three models of democratic economic planning were designed by Pat Devine (joined later by Fikret Adaman), Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel and Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell. These three models are called negotiated coordination, participatory economics and computerized central planning. They are still at the center of the discussion about what a postcapitalist economy should look like.

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N’étions-nous pas des enseignant·e·s? Décentrer notre pratique universitaire de la recherche

Under the cobblestones, the university: engaging collective innovation to rethink our practices

Un projet de planification économique pour le Québec

Cette recherche détaille comment le Québec pourrait effectuer des réformes importantes suite à cette crise pour se diriger vers un changement de système économique.

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The Ecological Economics of Economic Democracy

Ecological economics is at a sharp crossroads today, mostly due to the unprecedented scale of the intertwined social and ecological crises we face. We argue that the discipline should engage with the thinking and practices around alternatives to capitalism more substantially, as this is essential and invaluable for the discipline’s ability to contribute to a just and sustainable future.

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Economies as Commons: Labor and Production in Solidarity

This chapter is motivated by this observation; namely, that putting the literatures on the commons and solidarity economies in a critical dialogue is not only needed and timely, but would also be politically productive.

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Emancipatory social innovation: neopolanyian theoretical foundations

This CRITS Research Note aims to theorize and disseminate some of the tacit knowledge of social innovation practitioners focusing on systemic transitions. By mobilizing Nancy Fraser’s Neopolanyian Critical Theory, we are developing the Emancipatory Social Innovation (ESI) school of thought in order to respond to the specific problem of the current mismatch between the theories and practices of transsystemic social innovations.

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Le déficit humain imposé aux plus pauvres

Dans cette note, l’Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) souhaite lever un coin du voile sur cette dette collective envers les plus pauvres en mesurant un aspect de ces déficits humains, soit les dollars ayant manqué aux revenus des ménages du Québec, de 2002 à 2011, pour combler leurs besoins de base. Nous démontrons que, malgré l’ampleur de la richesse produite collectivement, nous imposons d’importants sacrifices à une part non négligeable de la population en raison de son maintien sous le seuil de cette couverture minimale.

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De la décroissance à la planification démocratique : un programme de recherche

En gros, mon objectif est de tracer ici un programme de recherche qui – s’il intéresse – pourrait réunir une diversité de personnes dans un effort commun. Je commencerai par définir ce que je crois être la question centrale, soit la planification démocratique, pour ensuite aborder ce programme dans les principales sous-questions qu’il soulève.

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Contribution à une économie politique de l’émancipation

Cette Contribution à une économie politique de l’émancipation a pour objet d’étude les institutions de trois projets émancipateurs : le projet d’autonomie de Cornélius Castoriadis, le municipalisme libertaire de Murray Bookchin et l’économie participative de Michael Albert et Robin Hahnel. La thèse formule la critique de ces projets à partir de quatre théories critiques contemporaines : la démocratie radicale française (Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort, Miguel Abensour), l’école de la limite (André Gorz, John Bellamy Foster, Serge Latouche), la critique de la valeur (Moishe Postone, Robert Kurz, Anselme Jappe) et les pratiques des organisations libertaires (Francesca Polletta, Francis Dupuis-Déri, David Graeber).

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