Tag: cooperation

• May 13, 2024

  Call for Abstracts: Global Cooperative Economics (& Movements)

  The editors of the forthcoming Global Cooperative Economics (and Movements) cordially invite interested scholars to contribute to this important, timely, and transdisciplinary reference work. The volume will feature around forty 3,500-7,000 word chapters that provide a broad overview of various areas of cooperative economics & management with expected publication by Q3 2025. The volume will:…
• March 31, 2023

  The Cooperative Economy + ProSocial World

  Yesterday, an article of mine was published in This View of Life, a magazine spearheaded by David Sloan Wilson(DSW), synthesizing three perspectives: DSW’s “prosocial” biology with, among others, Elinor Ostrom’s Commons-based economics and Steven Hayes’ relational psychology. The article focuses on Italy’s tradition of social and community cooperatives, looking at them from an evolutionary perspective,…
• January 24, 2023

  Two Talks at the Royal Academy of Belgium on a Sustainable Agenda for the Firm

  I had the privilege of giving two keynote lectures as Chaire SFPI of the Academie Royale de Belgique, within the College Belgique, in October. The first of these was entitled Embedding Firms within the Mission Economy, and attempts to introduce and problematize the dual nature of sustainability (i.e. environmental and social), seeking to understand whether…
• January 17, 2023

  New Master’s and PhD Program in Cooperation & Sustainability!

  The good news has been rolling in for Cooperative Economics, of late. Just last week, Routledge expressed interest and support in a new Handbook of Cooperative Economics. Now, our application for approval of a new Master’s and PhD program in sustainability and cooperation has been approved! This is wonderful news and means that, soon, we…
• November 15, 2022

  Recent Podcast Appearance

  The topic of the cooperative economy made a recent appearance on the psychiatry and mental health podcast, “A Place of Safety”, where I discuss my research of Italian social and community cooperatives, discuss the state of the art in researching cooperation and cooperatives and look at potentials for “importing-exporting” self-organization and multi-stakeholding in different contexts…
• September 4, 2022

  Course on The Cooperative Economy complete!

  All four modules are now complete and you can visit them all at www.econ.coop! This includes the latest, Module 4, which you can access here.
• September 2, 2022

  Several (fascinating) new videos online!

  Module 3, #CooperativeEconomics, is nearly complete. Video 4, on #multistakeholding and multistakeholder coops is one of, I think, the most engaging discussions in all four modules. It shows how the role of single individuals, here a psychiatrist named Franco Basaglia, can sometimes change the course of history. Check it out!
• August 27, 2022

  Module 2 is complete!

  Module 2, featuring six videos outlining chapters 3, 4 and 5 of The Cooperative Economy: Towards a Stakeholder-Led Democracy is now available. Enjoy, and don’t forget to visit our Youtube page for more updates!