I discuss what the Open Method of Coordination does, not from the point of view of its procedures, but via the cognitive instruments that serve as tools for coordination, benchmarking and adjustment of national policies. This helps to connect with the analysis of conventions with regards to...

This paper presents the main assumptions of the French research on the "économie des conventions" toward an anglo-saxon audience. It applies that framework to labour issues and, specifically, the formalisation of the labour relation.

Amartya Sen's works lead to focus theoretical issues relative to deliberative democracy, not only on optimal procedural rules, but upstream on the substantial content of the informational basis that serves as background to deliberation. The contribution explores the issues to take on board,...

La contribution se concentre sur le changement, dans la crise actuelle, des modes d'action de l'Etat en direction d'une action, non plus sur les réalités, mais sur le sens commun. Elle réactive le concept de "savoir de sens commun", comme ensemble des conventions qui donnent sens (en tant que...

This lecture delivered to an international Conference in Norway on social exclusion and marginalization offered a preliminary approach to capture social exclusion phenomena as capability deprivation. It also offers a first sketch about the several methods of inquiry with regards to the different...

La conférence porte sur l'emploi des indicateurs de performance dans l'évaluation de l'action publique, en particulier la recherche. Elle contraste eux méthodes d'articulation entre évaluation et recherche et esquisse un cadre de saisie de la pluralité des acteurs et de leur modes...

On examine l'analyse que peut faire du travail comme activité l'approche par les capacités dérivée des recherches d'Amartya Sen et appliquée à un domaine qu'il n'a pas directement exploré.

Relying upon the "economics of conventions, this contribution intends to build the contours of a pragmatic, thus "situated", theory of institutions. It undertakes it through the re-reading of main theories of justice (Buchanan, Hayek and, above all, Rawls and Sen).