1.
Work, employment and economic activity
- What role should
salaried work play as a factor of social integration? In the
context of the mutation of wage labor and of persistence of unemployment,
how to develop non-salaried forms of remuneration of labor?
- How to fight against the new forms of precarization of work
and the persistence of various forms of exploitation (including
child labor, slave labor, etc.) both in the South and the North?
- How to develop policies to fight against unemployment on a
global scale?
Key words: work, employment,
unemployment, activity, wage, remuneration, slavery.
2.
Enterprise, power and ethics
- How to value and
promote the non-profit economic initiatives and organizations
for whose activities the search for profit is not the goal?
- How to stimulate modes of entrepreneurial organization and
decision making that are more participatory and democratic, and
that take into account the opinion of the workers, users and
other partners of the enterprise?
- How to favor social recognition of the enterprises that are
socially, culturally and ecologically innovative? Codes of conduct
for transnational corporations?
- How to reach a more democratic control of productive resources
and the gains of productivity which to which workers and citizens
have contributed?
Key words: enterprise,
shareholders, user participation, power within the enterprise,
non-profit, wage labor participation, codes of conduct, property
of the means of production, corruption, ethics
3.
Production and investment
- How can enterprises
integrate in their investment choices other criteria of efficiency
than short-term profitability?
- How to take into account the social, cultural and ecological
effects of the introduction of new technologies and of new products?
- How to assure a more equitable and democratic sharing of the
gains of productivity between investment in the enterprise, remuneration
of the shareholders, price for the consumer, wage and work time
for the workers, taxes for the public sector, employment for
the unemployed?
Key works: work, investment,
production, profitability, science, technological innovation,
productivity, chain of production.
4.
Consumption
- Are alternatives
to consumerism possible?
- How to give place to a genuine consumer freedom of choice,
not subordinate to the exclusive dictates of propaganda and marketing?
- Can there be consensus about essential needs, the satisfaction
of which any economic system ought to ensure to all citizens?
- How can we take action as consumers to induce enterprises to
take into account the social, cultural and ecological dimensions
of their mode of production and management?
Key words: consumption,
lifestyle, consumerism, need, propaganda, patents.
5.
Fiscal policy, redistribution and social security
- How to conciliate
balanced socioeconomic development, the reduction of income inequality
and the fight to eradicate poverty in the South and in the North?
- What systems and levels of social security to promote in both
hemispheres?
- What types of taxes and redistribution mechanisms should be
set on a global scale in order to improve the fair sharing of
wealth and reduce inequalities between countries?
- What distribution of the socioeconomic rights (to land, natural
resources, food security, savings and investment) should be envisaged
in the perspective of autonomous individual and collective development?
Key words: socioeconomic
rights, inequalities, exclusion, income distribution, poverty,
social security, wealth, social policy, food security.
6.
Money, savings and finance
- How to promote non-speculative
forms of investment and savings?
- How to create equal access to credit that favors the right
of initiative to poorer countries and citizens without trapping
them in the spiral of indebtedness?
- What juridical and institutional transformations in the financial
agencies and in the multilateral relations are desirable in order
to regulate the financial markets in a perspective of co-responsibility
and solidarity?
Key words: money, finance,
savings, speculation, credit, debt, multilateral agencies, microcredit,
finance in solidarity, LETS, regulation.
7.
Global trade, competition and cooperation
- How to stimulate
equitable and cooperative trade between North and South and within
regions?
- What policies of international cooperation oriented toward
solidarity, complementarity and emancipation?
- What balance between free trade and protectionism is legitimate
in order to allow each country to develop on a sustainable basis?
- What world trade organization would allow all countries to
participate in world trade on a win-win basis?
- What transportation systems would favor more cooperative, efficient
and ecological exchanges?
Key words: equitable
trade, cooperation, protectionism, free trade, globalization,
competition, market, trade regulation, transport, aid.
8.
Growth and sustainable development
- Can the consumerist
lifestyle be extended to the whole planet without endangering
the reproduction of the biosphere and the existence of future
generations?
- What lifestyles and levels of consumption would be sustainable
and desirable?
- What limits to growth would be indispensable and legitimate
in order to move toward sustainable development?
- How to conciliate the preservation of the environment and the
economic development of the Southern countries?
Key words: environment,
future generations, growth, sustainable development, natural
resources, ecodevelopment.
9.
Economic Policy, ideologies and the geocultural dimension
- In what scales and
conditions is political regulation of economic activity possible
and desirable?
- Do the national States still have the legitimacy to regulate
the economy or is their mission reduced to the mobilization of
their country's financial, educational and cultural resources
for the benefit of transnational corporations?
- What socioeconomic, political and cultural role should these
agents play?
- How to favor the articulation between territorial spaces that
will not transfer to the local level the management of social
exclusion globally generated?
- How to assure a socioeconomic equilibrium between urban and
rural development?
Key words: Territory,
State, civil society, citizenship, neoliberalism, statism, social-democracy,
ideology, local development, regulation, local-global, rural-urban,
MAI, international institutions, political-juridical agencies.
10.
Solidarity and forms of exchange: from local to global
- How to promote and
develop the spaces of non-monetary exchange in the context of
globalization?
- How to promote socioeconomic equality between men and women
that take into account the plurality of forms of wealth creation:
better sharing of family tasks, access to work and equity of
remuneration, equal access to the property of land and capital?
- What types and place to give to the public sector and services
in a globalized economy?
- How to favor the development a socioeconomy of solidarity?
- What education and what exchanges of knowledge that favor the
emergence of social agents committed to the development of a
socioeconomy of solidarity?
Key words: public sector,
gender, socioeconomy of solidarity, domestic economy, self-sustained
production, globalization of solidarity, market of solidarity,
non-merchant economy, non-monetary economy, LETS,
co-responsibility.
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