CJDES - Accueil OCCUPY! CONNECT! CREATE! - Imagining Life Beyond "The Economy" (part seven) | Grassroots Economic Organizing by Ethan Miller Previous: Part Six, "From Necessity to Possibility" and "From 'The Economy' to Economic solidarity and Democracy" (principles #4 and #5)... What is it "to occupy"? What is this charged word that is spreading like wildfire and inciting us to reclaim public space? We need to understand and to enact "occupation" in the widest sense possible: to seize every single space that we possibly can-physical and conceptual-in which to exercise collective power and experiment with new forms of collective life. The brilliance of #OccupyWallStreet is to create a common public space that is more than protest-as much a space of creation as it is of opposition. So: we can begin by mapping and strengthening the transformative economies of our current #occupations. And let's map our other "occupations," too. From here, we must create new occupations. We are only as strong as our connections with others, and the work of building other forms of livelihood cannot be done alone.
Der gesellschaftliche Nutzen von Schweizer Organisationen und Institutionen systematisch untersucht und transparent abgebildet. | GemeinwohlSchweiz Reves Network - European Network of Cities & Regions for the Social Economy Even though much still needs to be done to raise the awareness of EU decision-makers in different institutions on the contribution of social economy to society and its added value, a few initiatives were already taken to support a different approach to entrepreneurship and local partnerships with social economy enterprises. At the European Commission, it is above all DG Enterprise and Industry (Unit Crafts, small businesses, cooperatives and mutuals) and DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities that deal with issues related to social economy. Recently, under Michel Barnier, Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, also DG Market and Services started working more in depth on this type of enterprise. Together with the communication, the European Commission published a staff working paper which provides an overview of initiatives taken by the EU, as well as by the OECD, ILO and ITC, with regard to social entrepreneurship.
Le CEGES Investigating the Social Economy » Cluster 4 – Measuring and Mapping the Social Economy Last Updated on January 24th, 2013 Social enterprises make significant contributions to the local, regional, national and international community. Cluster 4′s objective is to develop measurement tools to determine more precisely the value of those contributions. Multiplier effects, spillovers and externalities that occur because of the organizations that exist within a community need to be identified and measured. Co-lead, Lou Hammond Ketilson, University of Saskatchewan (principal investigator), is director of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and co-director (academic) of the Community-University Institute for Social Research. Co-lead, Monique Beaudoin, is the Ontario Regional Coordinator of the Canadian CED Network – la Réseau canadien de DEC (CCEDNet-RCDEC). The following co-applicants and collaborators worked with Cluster 4: The following community partners worked with Cluster 4: Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. The following research projects were conducted under Cluster 4:
Emerald | International Journal of Social Economics information International Journal of Social Economics (IJSE) provides its readers with a unique forum for the exchange and sharing of information in social economics. The focus of the journal is the impact of economic activity on individuals in community, and its wider social meanings and consequences. The IJSE exists to explore the nature and ethical implications of social-economic problems, as these are analysed by geographers, historians, philosophers, political economists, political scientists, social and political theorists, sociologists, and theologians interested in social problems, as well as business academics. Social economics focuses on needs, rather than wants, and the wellbeing of individuals in community rather than the individual conceived as an isolated atom. It accepts the possibility of a common good in which communities are more than merely aggregates of individual preferences. RankingsAustralian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List - B ranking
Social Economy Policies in Argentina: Potential and Limits for the Development of Associative and Cooperative Work This is part of a series of think pieces by scholars and practitioners working on a broad range of issues within the field of Social and Solidarity Economy. The series is being published in conjunction with the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. The conference took place on 6-8 May 2013 in collaboration with the International Labour Organization and the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. This think piece analyses the potential and limits of Social Economy policies implemented in Argentina since 2003. Malena Victoria Hopp is assistant professor of social anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires. Introduction Since 2003, Argentina has been restructuring its social and employment policies to address the social and economic crisis, especially the very high levels of poverty and unemployment, by generating decent work . In this context, I analyze the potential and limits of Social Economy policies implemented in Argentina since 2003. Conclusion