Une gestion démocratique et solidaire des communs ?

Abstract

This article highlights an innovative approach to the management of financial resources as a commons, using the case of development community banks (DCB) in Brazil. Not only does this approach meet the criteria of durability identified by Elinor Ostrom, but also the search for egalitarian interdependent relationships. Such interdependence is linked to the complex combination of several economic principles, with the aim of allowing solidarity and democracy to prevail over market-orientation and bureaucracy. This relies on the sociopolitical roots of DCBs, in other words the ongoing, intricate, and ever-evolving process of deliberation and construction of their legitimacy, with inhabitants as well as with institutional partners.

Keywords

• commons
• democracy
• finance
• market-oriented
• reciprocity
• redistribution