Procurement and a people's centred economy

There is much that one could say about the history of the idea of purchasing policies in a variety of historical, social and cultural contexts. [...] However, what is common to all of them is the fact that the idea of ethical purchasing emerges in the context of capitalist development and the social and economic exclusions which it creates. [...] We can consider these riots, and the later canadian social economy research PartnershiPs / centre canadien de recherche Partenariale en économie sociale J. J.mcmurtry and darryl reed formation of co-operatives, as part of a movement towards purchasing policies specifically because the crowd was demanding regulation, or more precisely the proper application of regulation in the case of the Assize [...] Parallels between the actions of the crowd in eighteenth century England and the movement for a people’s centred economy can be drawn as each brings together a variety of social actors and movements to demand fairness and morality in economic activity. [...] These movements take the “moral economy” arguments of the crowd and formalized them in focused organizations which specifically targeted social groups experiencing the economic exclusion of capitalism in a variety of contexts.