Revue Interventions Économiques ()

Le consumérisme politique : Une innovation régulatoire à l’ère de la mondialisation

  • Corinne Gendron,
  • Alain Lapointe,
  • Emmanuelle Champion,
  • Gisèle Belem,
  • Marie-France Turcotte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/interventionseconomiques.790
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33

Abstract

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This article examines the regulatory potential of political consumerism through the analysis of two new economic social movements: finance and consumption. The new generation of social movement, of which these innovations are a manifestation, reflect the institutionalization of new mechanisms which aim to control the market according to social and environmental criteria. But these mechanisms are prone to a commercial drift likely to destroy their transformational potential. These mechanisms deserve attention insofar as they reveal a social compromise of the contents of the social responsibility of economic actors and thus of regulatory signals in the era of globalization.

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