North America

36 publications

How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy

The Spring 2013 Issue of YES! Magazine

May 2013
Innovations In Sustainable Consumption. New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices

Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt, Edward Elgar Publishing, United States, February 2013
America the Possible. Manifesto for a New Economy

James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, United States, September 2012
People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, John Rogers, Triarchy Press, UK, July 2012
Managing Nonprofit Organizations

Mary Tschirhart, Wolfgang Bielefeld, John Wiley & Sons, USA, July 2012
The Resilience Imperative. Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

Mike Lewis, Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, BC, Canada, June 2012
The amazing power of cooperatives. Texts selected from the international call for paper proposals. Cooperatives Summit Quebec 2012

Marie-Joëlle Brassard, Ernesto Molina, 2012
Ethics and the Market. Insights from Social Economics

Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Figart Deborah M., Routledge, London and New York, November 2011
The New-Economy Movement

Article of The Nation, June 13, 2011

Gar Alperovitz, June 2011
Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities

Alan Southern, Routledge Publish., London, UK, April 2011
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle

Edited by Holger Hinte and Klaus F. Zimmermann Richard A. Easterlin, Oxford University Press, UK, November 2010
Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet

Emily Kawano, Thomas Neal Masterson, Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, Center for Popular Economics, USA, June 2010
Economies of Life: Patterns of health and wealth

Bill Sharpe, Triarchy Press, UK, May 2010
Capabilities, Power, and Institutions Toward a More Critical Development Ethics

Edited by Stephen L. Esquith, Fred Gifford, Penn State University Press, USA, May 2010
Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Duane Elgin, Harper Collins Publishers, USA, May 2010
Diet for a Hot Planet. The climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it.

Anna Lappé, Bloomsbury publishing plc, USA, April 2010
Social Entrepreneurship What Everyone Needs to Know

David Bornstein, Susan Davis, Oxford University Press, UK, March 2010
The Social Economy International. Perspectives on Economic Solidarity

Edited by Ash Amin, Zed Books, UK, September 2009
The Politics of Economics

Copyright © Hazel Henderson April 2009

Hazel Henderson, 2009
The Worth of Social Economy : an International Perspective

Edited by Marie J. Bouchard, 2009
Payback : Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Margaret Atwood, House of Anansi Press, Canada, October 2008
Solidarity Economy : building alternatives for People and Planet

Acompilation of papers and reports from the US Social Forum 2007.

Julie Matthaei, Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, ChangeMaker Publications, USA, 2008
The Green Collar Economy : How one solution can fix our two biggest problems

Van Jones, Harper-Collins, USA, 2008
The Real Weath of Nations : Creating a caring economy

Riane Eisler, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, USA, 2008
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly (Advances in Ecological Economics)

Herman E. Daly, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, United States, 2007
Other economies are possible

Dollars and Sense #266, July-August 2006

July 2006
The Politics of Money

February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

Hazel Henderson, February 2006
A Direct Stake in Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms

February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

Gar Alperovitz, February 2006
The Role of the Individual in Localizing Money Issue and Credit Creation

Twenty-Fifth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2005, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Christopher Houghton Budd, 2006
Ethical Markets : Growing The Green Economy

Hazel Henderson, Chelsea Green Publishing, USA, 2006
America beyond Capitalism. Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

Gar Alperovitz, Published by the Democracy Collaborative Press and Dollars and Sense., April 2004
Buying Time and Getting By. The Voluntary Simplicity Movement.

Mary Grigsby, State University of New York Press, Albany, USA., January 2004
No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative (2nd edition)

Edgar S. Cahn, Essential books Ltd, Usa, 2004
The soul of money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

Lynne Twist, W. W. Norton & Company, USA., September 2003
Tackling social exclusion in Europe: The Contribution of the Social Economy

Roger Spear, Jacques DEFOURNY, Louis Favreau, Jean-Louis Laville, Ashgate Publishing Limited, March 2001
Social economy: International debates and pespectives

Jean-Marc Fontan, Eric Shragge, Black Rose Books, Canada, 2000

A training

School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, United States – JUS 497/591: Social Enterprises: Innovation, Justice, and Community Development

One proposal

Transition Initiatives Primer.

becoming a Transition Town, City, District, Village, Community or even Island

Rob Hopkins, Ben Brangwyn, 2010

2 Videos

12 case studies

Vth URGENCI Symposium: Monterey California, USA, January 2013

International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #96

Jocelyn Parot, Yvon Poirier, March 2013
Community Economic Development (CED) in Canada: The Canadian CED network

Yvon Poirier, September 2012
Canada Case Study. Co-Construction of Public Policy for the Social Economy

International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

Paul Chamberlain, Mike Toye, Geneviève Huot, Émilien Gruet, October 2011
URGENCI: An international network of Local and Solidarity based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers

3rd International Symposium

Judith Hitchman, February 2008
Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins (Desjardins Solidarity Credit Union)

A unique financial institution

Yvon Poirier, June 2007
Environmental justice, community development and solidarity economy

The example of Kettleman City, California

Yvon Poirier, November 2006
Collaboration with stakeholders

Case study of the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

Vincent Commenne, 2006
New business models

Case study of the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

Vincent Commenne, 2006
Organizations promoting CSR

Case study from the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

Vincent Commenne, 2006
Presentation of Tucson Traders , USA

Thomas H. Greco, March 2001
Stories from an Appalachian Community

Twentieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2000, Salisbury, Connecticut

Marie Cirillo, 2000
Upscaling social investment. 50 case studies

Areas of relevance to developing and upscaling social investment in Europe and draw on international experiences relevant to the European situation.

avril 2000

17 analyses

Working Paper Territory and Local Development: A Place-based Perspective

International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

Neil Bradford, October 2011
Bringing Social Equity into Low-carbon Investment: why it matters and emerging lessons.

Becky Buell, Ruth Mayne, September 2011
“Selling Scrip to America: Ideology, Self-Help and the Experiments of the Great Depression”

International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

Sarah ELVINS, February 2011
Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.

Mike Mensner, Juscha Robinson, September 2010
Public Policy for the Social Economy: Building a people-centred economy in Canada

PUBLIC POLICY Paper Series Cahiers SUR les POLITIQUEs PUBLIQUEs Number 03 - jun e 2010

Sarah Amyot, Rupert Downing, Crystal Tremblay, June 2010
Public Policy Trends and Instruments Supporting the Social Economy: International Experiences

This paper highlights public policy trends and instruments from around the world that use the Social Economy as a framework to enhance socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.

Crystal Tremblay, April 2010
Advancing the Social Economy for Socio-economic Development: International perspectives

The growing attention to the concept of the Social Economy (SE) is indicative of efforts to address inter-related social, economic and environmental issues affecting the sustainable development of people, communities, and nations, and the inter-dependent nature of global human development.

Crystal Tremblay, March 2010
A New Economics for the Twenty-first Century

MPRA Paper No. 27907

Neva Goodwin, 2010
Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars

Janelle Orsi, 2010
Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics: Exploring an Alternative Approach.

CSERGE Working Paper ECM 07-05

Gill Seyfang, May 2007
The Social Economy

Diverse approaches and practices in Europe and Canada

Jean-Louis Laville, Benoît Lévesque, Marguerite Mendell, November 2006
Local Scrip in the USA During the 1930s: Lessons for Today?

Loren Gatch, 2006
Srudy on Economic Actors’Societal Responsibility - Research Report on the Situation in North America

Research report on North America, part of the study on Economic Actors’ Societal Responsibility (EASR) carried out by the WSSE’s EASR Workshop. (

Pierre Beaudet, October 2004
Solidarity Economics: Strategies for Building New Economies From the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out

A pamphlet written as an adaptation and synthesis of some solidarity economy concepts with other streams of thought and practice. The author’s aim is to help open space for useful conversations about a practice of solidarity economics that is adapted to the particular political, economic, and cultural conditions that are being faced in the United States.

Ethan Miller, February 2004
Going Glocal. Putting the local on the glocal stage.

Making Waves, Volume 15, number 1

Mike Lewis, 2004
Local currency as a development strategy

A mathematical model on the use of local currencies

Rajshri Jayaraman, Mandar Oak, March 2001
Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies

Robert Swann, Susan Witt, 1995

One charter/manifesto

The social/solidarity-based economy: A North-South perspective

Second International Meeting on the Globalization of Solidarity October 9 to 12, 2001, Quebec City Synthesis and Conclusions

2002

A reader’s report

Book review: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy, Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty

Yvon Poirier, October 2012

10 public contributions

If You Don’t Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want?

Thirty-First Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures

Gar Alperovitz, November 2011
Eat the Sky: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork.

Anna Lappé, October 2008
Social economy and local development in Montréal A contribution for a more inclusive and sustainable city

Presented at the World conference on the development of cities Porto Alegre/RS, Brésil

Pierre Morrissette, February 2008
Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environmental Justice

Twenty-Seventh Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2007, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Majora Carter, October 2007
Fifty Million Farmers

Twenty-Sixth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2006, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Richard Heinberg, October 2006
L’ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE: QUEBEC’S POLICY ENVIRONMENT

Presentation by Nancy Neamtan President of the Chantier de l’économie sociale Symposium 2004: Changes…challenges..new directions Canadian Centre for Philanthropy September 21, 2004

Nancy Néamtan, September 2004
Salmon Economics (and other lessons)

Twenty-Third Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2003, Stockbridge, MA

Andrew Kimbrell, October 2003
Democracy, Earth Rights, and the Next Economy

Twenty-First Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2002, Amherst, Massachusetts

Alanna Hartzok, October 2002
Creating a Post-Corporate World.

Twentieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2000, Salisbury, Connecticut

David C. Korten, October 2000