This article critically examines the place given to institutions for the necessary change leading to a sustainable capitalism. Approaches promoting a new mode of consumption and multiactor partnerships are both based on a change process essentially depending on individual behaviours. We put the...

The Fordist wage compromise may resemble an attempt to macroeconomically establish ethico-political rules governing the conflicting cooperation between capitalists and employees ( Aglietta, 1998 ; Boyer, 1993 ). The question of the relationship between ethics and economics is, thus, not...