http://www.ecodema.org/ en-us info@pierreducasse.ca 2010-08-16T11:02:16-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000316.html Voir cet article de Takis Fotopoulos, Pour une démocratie économique, dans la Revue Agone. Même si le texte date de 1999, c'est un bon texte, même si la perspective est différente en plusieurs points de la mienne. C'est modèle assez... 316@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-08-16T11:02:16-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000314.html Pretty good article in The Economist. Is social enterprise and social innovation going to get the political recognition it deserves? My problem with this article, however, is how it simply defines social entrepreneurship as a "private" enterprise and even talks... 314@http://www.ecodema.org/ T1: Work and production / Travail et production 2010-08-13T10:35:13-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000311.html In 1987 President Ronald Reagan sought to create universal capital ownership in the United States of America through the Capital Homestead Act. The Capital Homestead Act would reorganize the Federal Reserve so that each citizen of the United States would... 311@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-04-10T14:31:40-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000310.html The Spirit of America's revolutionary founders and of Adam Smith is brooding over America. We Americans, and indeed much of the world, are once again in a populist battle against capitalism and imperialism. It is a battle that we can... 310@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-04-04T08:24:32-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000309.html and bringing us the same wrong answers!... 309@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-04-01T10:00:42-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000308.html ECODEMA welcomes you, the dear reader, to a New America. OK, it's part of a draft of a draft of a paper being presented before economics educators in Las Vegas in April. I've been assigned the "theoretical and descriptive portion"... 308@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-03-31T10:47:22-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000307.html As you may know, Tom Vouloumanos and I are working on a book on economic democracy. Looks like this book by Allan Engler beat us to it. Haven't read it yet, but I'm sure it's generally on the same themes... 307@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-03-30T22:18:24-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000306.html I'm at it again. Can't leave the CCF alone. I've been reworking the Regina Manifesto, reframing it in largely non-statist terms, as if guild socialists had written the Regina Manifesto rather than Fabians. It is also framed in term of... 306@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-03-18T14:16:36-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000305.html Please have a look here for Economic Democracy : The politics of Feasible Socialism by Robin Archer. I must admit I did not know his work. Looking through it, I would have three quick observations. First, his general perspective is... 305@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2010-02-26T18:47:16-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000304.html If you're someone thinking about how we can reorganize our income-support systems, then I would highly recommend the website of Basic Income Studies.... 304@http://www.ecodema.org/ T7: State and public services / État et services publics 2010-01-15T11:06:25-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000303.html The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the wife and husband team of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto... 303@http://www.ecodema.org/ Blog (main) / Blogue principal 2009-12-31T15:14:38-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000301.html Cornelius Castoriadis was an influential Greek philosopher and a founder of the French based radical libertarian socialist group Socialisme ou Barbarie in the post WWII period. Castoriadis' political origins were in Marxism but he later moved towards the Anarchist ideas... 301@http://www.ecodema.org/ 2009-12-28T15:10:15-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000297.html Mondragon isn't just another cooperative it is the world's largest network of worker cooperatives and an important model of self-management with a yearly revenue of 16.8 Billion Euros (2008). Currently, it is Spain's 7th largest economic entity! The individual cooperatives... 297@http://www.ecodema.org/ 2009-12-11T12:26:07-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000296.html Here's an article titled Union co-ops the future of labour? that deals with the historic agreement between North America's largest union and the world's larges cooperative network. The announcement came on the heels of a push for worker-owned co-operatives by... 296@http://www.ecodema.org/ 2009-12-05T17:23:02-05:00 http://www.ecodema.org/archives/000295.html The United Steel Workers Union, North America's largest industrial trade union, announced a new collaboration with the world's largest worker-owned cooperative, Mondragon International, based in the Basque region of Spain. SEE FULL ARTICLE HERE Economic Democrats have often argued that... 295@http://www.ecodema.org/ 2009-11-28T16:37:38-05:00