Jalons pour une approche socioéconomique des communs monétaires [Landmarks for a Socio-economic Approach to Monetary Commons]

If money is perceived by many as naturally being a public good, nowadays it is less and less seen as allowing the common good. Money is being questioned and challenged, raising – with a wide variety of projects which can be radically different - the question of how to manage and how to govern this particular resource. First, we shall see that economic theory deals with money almost exclusively from the point of view of the market or of the state. But money is above all a total social fact. Overcoming the market/state opposition with regard to money makes it possible to consider money as a common. Then, can money be instituted as a common and what would be a monetary common? Building on the polanyian integration principle of "householding", we define the principle of community sharing, which makes it possible to conceptualize the sharing of a monetary resource. We will see that the rules established within a payment community make it possible to establish money as a common.