Tag: economy

• 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…
• 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 7, 2022

  The Cooperative Economy: Towards a Stakeholder-Led Democracy: Video 1