The paper presents a social innovation as an innovative business model with new social relations and indicates a few short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance service providers. The cases are from microcredit,...

Slow money, or patient nurturing capital invested locally in food and basic industries, is a new term but an old notion. This paper examines the cases of the CIGALES clubs of microangels in France and the more recent case of the slow money alliance to ferret out the basic principles and...

Après avoir brossé le paysage énergétique du monde et de l’Europe, et compte tenu de la volonté de nombreux états de voter un moratoire pour la poursuite du nucléaire, les atouts des énergies alternatives et renouvelables sont passées en revue.

Studying the interactions occurring within groups is an interesting way of broaching group dynamics and collective work. After an analysis of existing coding grids and their limits and a study based on many recorded group experiences, we built a new coding instrument which enables to code...

This paper starts from a puzzle. On the one hand, the literature documents that a large proportion of poor people are ready to forgo interest on rigid – or commitment – savings accounts to discipline their future selves. On the other, our stylized facts from Bangladesh show that microfinance...

Inclusive financial sectors are essential in terms of poverty alleviation. While microcredit can be governed as a private good, self-managed civil society organizations propose an alternative way of managing financial services. Brazil's Community Development Banks (CDBs) are a growing and...

This paper investigates the participation in social networks of theater's audiences. Our purpose is to observe, describe and understand the role of social networks in the consumption behavior of the theater field. In particular, we put the accent on the concept of cultural capital with its...

Civil wars often force people to leave their homes. Displaced populations run higher risk in terms of disease, hunger and death, something that is well-documented. They leave their land, cattle and other assets behind for an uncertain existence in a refugee camp or depend on relatives or...

Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To...

En 1972, le magazine Playboy revenait, à l’occasion d’une interview d’Alinsky en douze parties, sur quelques éléments marquants de sa vie. Parmi ceux-ci, l’un d’eux a attiré mon attention. Il s’agit du littéral retournement de la communauté de Back of the Yards. Cette...