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53 publications

• Ethical Consumption

  Sophie DUBUISSON-QUELLIER, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., October 2013

• Cancel The Apocalypse. The new path to prosperity.

  Andrew Simms, Little, Book Group, Brown, USA, February 2013

• Policy Brief on Social Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Activities in Europe.

  ©OECD/European Union publication

  Antonella Noya, Emma Clarence, 2013

• Modernising money. WHY OUR MONETARY SYSTEM IS BROKEN AND HOW IT CAN BE FIXED

  Foreword by Prof Herman Daly

  Andrew Jackson, Ben Dyson, Positive Money, UK, 2013

• Social economy: Laying the groundwork for innovative solutions to today’s challenges

  European Commission in Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2012

  December 2012

• Reduced Work Time, Participatory Democracy and Time Currency

  Bruno Théret, December 2012

• Where does money come from? A guide to the UK monetary and banking system. Second Edition.

  Josh Ryan Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Andreas Werner, Andrew Jackson, November 2012

• Occupy money: Creating an economy where everybody wins.

  Margrit Kennedy, New Society Publishers, United States, October 2012

• Green Economics and Citizens Income

  Clive Lord, Miriam Kennet, September 2012

• People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

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

• WellBeing, Choice and Sustainability. What should Economic Policy target in a new Era Economy

  Amna Silim, April 2012

• Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise. Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models

  Benjamin HUYBRECHTS, Routledge Publish., London, UK, March 2012

• The commons: (Co)managing commonly owned resources

  Proceedings of the symposium of 9 March 2012 in Brussels, Belgium

  GHISLAIN ERREMBAULT, March 2012

• IT’S COOPERATION, STUPID. Why Richard Dawkins, Thomas Hobbes and Milton Friedman got it wrong

  Charles Leadbeater, March 2012

• Small Change, Big Deal. Money as if people mattered.

  Jennifer Kavanagh, John Hunt Publishing, Business Books, London, March 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

• Social Tourism in Europe. Theory and Practice

  Scott McCabe, Lynn Minnaert, Anya Diekmann, Channel View Publications, October 2011

• A NEW APPROACH TO WELFARE: GENERATING EXPERIENCES

  October 2011

• The Transition Companion Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times

  Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, USA, October 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

• The solidarity economy: an alternative development strategy?

  International Social Sciences Journal, Unesco, Vol. 62, Issue N°203-204, pages 205-215

  Eric Dacheux, Daniel Goujon, March 2011

• New money for a new world

  Bernard Lietaer, Stephen Belgin, Qiterra Press, 2011

• Towards a Global Finance System at the Service of Sustainable Development

  Assessing the development impact of European and global financial reforms

  2011

• Eminent Corporations : the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation

  David Boyle, September 2010

• Zero carbon Britain 2030. A new energy Strategy: The second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project

  June 2010

• Banks and microfinance in Europe

  MicroFinance Europe n°7, June 2010

  June 2010

• The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource

  Mary Mellor, Pluto Press, UK, April 2010

• Growth isn’t possible. Why we need a new economic direction

  2010

• The Atlas of job création good practices for social inclusion

  Ethical Finance for an active, creative and solidarity-based Europe. Practical datasheet.

  2010

• Your Money Or Your Life: Time For Both

  Martin Simon, Freedom Favours, UK, 2010

• A bit rich. Calculating the real value to society of different professions

  December 2009

• The Ecology of Finance. An alternative white paper on banking and financial sector reform. November 2009

  November 2009

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, October 2009

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, New Economics Foundation, UK, October 2009

• The Social Economy International. Perspectives on Economic Solidarity

  Edited by Ash Amin, Zed Books, UK, September 2009

• Ecological Debt : Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations : second edition

  Andrew Simms, Pluto Press, UK, April 2009

• « Prosperity without growth » ? The transition to a sustainable economy

  Tim Jackson, Sustainable Development Commission, UK, April 2009

• Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy e ficient economy

  The issue of resource scarcity is back on the agenda. What should EU do about it?

  Raimund Bleischwitz, Michael Kuhndt, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Stefan Giljum, March 2009

• Green Well Fair. Three economies for social justice

  February 2009

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, 2009

• Money matters:Putting the eco into economics - global crisis, local solutions

  David Boyle, Alastair Sawday Publishing, UK, 2009

• The triple crunch : joined up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  Collective, 2008

• From the ashes of the crash : 20 first steps from new economics to rebuild a better economy

  Andrew Simms, 2008

• THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

  Rafael Chaves Ávila, José Luis Monzón Campos, 2007

• Social Enterprise. At the crossroads of market, public policies and civil society

  Marthe Nyssens (ed.), Routledge, London and New York, 2006

• Social exclusion.

  David Byrne, Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK, June 2005

• Ecological Debt. The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations

  Andrew Simms, Pluto Press, UK, May 2005

• Italy’s Emilia Romagna Clustering Co-op Development

  Article from Cooperative Grocer for retailors and cooperators, #109, November-December 2003

  David J. Thompson, November 2003

• The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. A Popular Initiative.

  2003

• Placing the Social Economy

  Ash Amin, Angus Cameron, Ray Hudson, Routledge, London, UK, May 2002

• Associationalism for A Hundred and Fifty Years - and still alive and kicking: Some reflections on the Danish civil society

  Lars Bo Kaspersen, March 2002

• The money changers : currency reform from Aristotle to e-cash.

  David Boyle, Earthscan, 2002

• 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

5 Training courses

• European Summer School on Social Economy (ESSE) – European Summer School on Social Economy (3d edition - July 8th-13th, 2013)

• Glasgow Caledonian University - GCU, Scotland – MSc Social Enterprise

• Institute for Social Banking – Summer school 2013.Come Together: Social Banking & The Commons

• Schumacher College, UK – Economics for Transition - achieving low carbon, high well-being, resilient economies, MA and PG Certificate programme

• University of Bath, UK – Masters in Wellbeing and Public Policy and International Development at the University of Bath, with the Post-Graduate Certificate stage available by distance-learning.

One proposal

• Transition Initiatives Primer.

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

  Rob Hopkins, Ben Brangwyn, 2010

3 Videos

• WIR Bank Report - RAI Television English SUB

  by Giorgio Simonetti

  2010

• Ludwig Schuster – A New Monetary Pluralism from a recombination of regional economic circles to investing in a sustainable future.

  Ludwig Schuster, June 2009

• JAK Bank Report Part 1-4 - Ethics - www.giorgiosimonetti.net

20 case studies

• The Deccan Development Society in India

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #94

  Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, December 2012

• The CEECEC Handbook: Ecological Economics from the Bottom-Up

  2012

• Cloughjourdan - An Irish Eco-village

  Judith Hitchman, December 2011

• Nekasarea: a Basque network serving the everyday struggle for Food Sovereignty

  A network of consumers and producers organized beyond community supported agriculture (CSA)

  Jocelyn Parot, December 2010

• The Association Terre de Liens: An example in Echausses, France of multi-purpose propertyi

  Martine Theveniaut, May 2010

• Transition Towns, UK

  Judith Hitchman, October 2009

• Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

  Social money for sound community development

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009

• Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

  A critical analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and potentialities of the model

  Judith Hitchman, November 2008

• URGENCI: An international network of Local and Solidarity based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers

  3rd International Symposium

  Judith Hitchman, February 2008

• Residual Barter Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring

  James Stodder, December 2007

• Time Banks in the UK: Building Sustainable Communities

  The challenge to create sustainable communities is identified as a core priority in ‘Securing The Future’, the UK government’s strategy for sustainable development. Tackling social exclusion and building neighbourhood engagement are seen as principal elements of that objective, and there is an urgent need for tools and initiatives to achieve these aims. Community currencies are a grassroots innovation which claim to meet those goals. They are initiatives which develop and utilise an alternative medium of exchange, to enable people to trade goods and services without using cash.

  Gill Seyfang, September 2006

• Collaboration with stakeholders

  Case study of the book Social and environmental responsibility, 2006

  Vincent Commenne, 2006

• Meeting local needs

  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

• BNB - The alternative currency of the Social Economy Network Cooperative in Basel, Switzerland

  2005

• CONSORZIO ETIMOS, Italy

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Marco Santori, July 2002

• The Historical Perspective – Case Study of Savings and Credit Associations in Albania

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Ruth Egger, May 2002

• Analysis of two French solidarity finance tools: the NEF and the CIGALES

  Case studies on: « Microfinance and social ties »

  Pauline Grosso, October 2001

• Presentation of Banca Etica, Italy

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Francesco Bicciato, July 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

50 analyses

• Classification of Social economy organizations

  Edith Archambault, June 2013

• Simply happy? Voluntary simplicity and subjective wellbeing

  Dissertation for the Degree of MSc in Wellbeing and Human Development

  Nadine van Dijk, September 2012

• desperadosTheory

  Desperado Pérez, 2012

• Currency Pluralism and Economic Stability: The Swiss Experience

  The Swiss complementary currency WIR is a classic example of monetary creation managed by economic agents lying outside the traditional banking system. When faced with tightening of credit or liquidity crises, Swiss small businesses increase their WIR transactions; when conditions improve, they return to the Swiss franc. This countercyclical effect illustrates the potential for parallel currencies to serve as tools for macroeconomic stability.

  Wojtek Kalinowski, November 2011

• Social entrepreneurship: the new narrative for the practice of the social economy

  CIRIEC-España, Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa, núm. 73, special issue, October 2011, p.9-31

  Nuria Toledano, October 2011

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

  International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

  Neil Bradford, October 2011

• Social empowerment as a way to transform the economy – A reconsideration of Jean-Louis Laville’s research on Social and Solidarity Economy

  Mémoire for The CNAM - Jean-Louis Laville

  Max Rademacher, September 2011

• The role of mutual societies in the 21st century

  Study for The European Parliament

  Douwe Grijpstra, Simon Broek, Bert-Jan Buiskool, Mirjam Plooij, July 2011

• Solidarity economy between a focus on the local and a global view Regional currencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

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

  Krister Volkmann, February 2011

• Local Exchange Trade Systems in the Central European Post Communist Countries

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

  Petr JELÍNEK, Zsuzsanna Eszter SZALAY, Alois KONEČNÝ, February 2011

• Banking as if Society Mattered: The Case of Triodos Bank

  Katrin Dr. Käufer, January 2011

• Local development in Europe. Assessment and prospects after the economic crisis

  Policy Brief Notre Europe n+21. January 2011

  January 2011

• Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

  Final Study Executive Summary and Part I: Synthesis and comparative report

  October 2010

• Marketing on local markets

  September 2010

• Resource Productivity Dynamics: a Cross-Country Overview and Policies

  Contribution to the 3rd International Wuppertal Colloquium on „Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity – Harnessing Industry and Policy Towards Eco-Innovation”, Brussels, Sep 4 – 6, 2010

  Raimund Bleischwitz, September 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

• Stärkung der sozialen Infrastruktur durch soziale Unternehmen im Land Brandenburg Eine Exploration am Beispiel von drei Brandenburger Landkreisen

  2010

• Exploring the diversity of Fair Trade social enterprises

  Benjamin HUYBRECHTS, Jacques DEFOURNY, 2010

• Lokale Soziale Ökonomie. Lern- und Studienmaterial

  Ein Europäisches Curriculum für Praktiker, Unterstützer und Multiplikatoren in Sozialen Unternehmen

  Karl Birkhölzer, September 2009

• Local Social Economy Learning Package

  A European Curriculum for Social Enterprise Practitioners and Supporters

  Karl Birkhölzer, September 2009

• MFI efficiency and State intervention – what correlation?

  (Empirical analysis of the two main strategic French microcredit models - used in this paper as analytical grids for the ongoing debates about microfinance in the South)

  Benoît Granger, Stefanie Lämmerman, June 2009

• The Implementation of Social Capital Features in Social Auditing Procedures to secure Community Accountability of Social Enterprises in the Third Sector.

  Günther Lorenz, 2008

• Images and concepts of the Third Sector in Europe

  Jacques DEFOURNY, Victor PESTOFF, 2008

• Social enterprise in Europe: Recent trends and developments

  Jacques DEFOURNY, Marthe Nyssens, 2008

• The Everyday Democracy Index

  A new approach to comparing the democratic health of nations

  Paul Skidmore, Kirsten Bound, 2008

• Sociale Ökonomie in Berlin. Perspektive für neue Angebote und sinnvolle Arbeitsplätze in der Hauptstadt

  Heike Birkhölzer, Günther Lorenz, Monika Schillat, 2007

• The Social Economy

  Diverse approaches and practices in Europe and Canada

  Jean-Louis Laville, Benoît Lévesque, Marguerite Mendell, November 2006

• Local Currencies in European History: an Analytical Framework

  A discussion of local currencies in European history, starting with the end of medieval times and ending with the 1970s, leading to the presentation of an analytical framework that should be useful in order to understand today’s local currencies movement. (Text presented at the Monetary Regionalisation conference, 28-29th September 2006, Weimar, Germany.)

  Jérôme Blanc, September 2006

• Economics, Cooperation, and Employee Ownership: The Emilia Romagna model – in more detail

  John Logue, 2006

• The medieval invention of emancipating credit

  XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki 2006

  Maria Giuseppna Muzzarelli, 2006

• Mondragon: a holding company of co-operatives faced with globalization

  Conference at L’Ecole de Paris, 2005

  Jacques Prades, Fernando Gomez Acedo, November 2005

• Study on Economic Actors’ Societal Responsibility - Research Report on the Situation in Europe

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

  Vincent Commenne, May 2005

• The Cooperative District of Imola Forging the High Road to Globalization

  Matt Hancock, 2005

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 5

  Part 5 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report has about 230 pages and is divided into five sections. It can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 4

  Part 4 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report has about 230 pages and is divided into five sections. It can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 2

  Part 2 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report has about 230 pages and is divided into five sections. It can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 1

  Part 1 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report is about 230 pages long and is divided into five sections. t can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Executive Summary

  An executive summary, in English and Dutch, of a five-part report on ecological debt. It can also be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the full report is available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Equal opportunity for women and men in European enterprises

  Equal opportunity for women and men and the question of reconciling professional and family life constitute an important aspect of a company’s social sustainability. Three member organisations of a European network of responsible shareholders launched a campaign to contact companies they hold shares in for a status report concerning equality between women and men.

  April 2004

• Cooperativization on the Mondragón Model As Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism

  Alternatives to Globalization 2004 conference papers

  Betsy Bowman, Bob Stone, 2004

• The Third System as innovative force : an attempt at a definition of its function

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2004

• Bartering for a Better Future? Community Currencies and Sustainable Consumption

  Gill Seyfang, 2004

• The concept of social capital in the social economy to local economic develoment in Western Europe

  Conscise Research project 2000-2003

  2003

• Social capital

  Information paper

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2003

• The European rural world and sustainability

  During the Valencia encounter in May 1999 on the European rural world and sustainability, the participants defined 5 axis of reflection : 1) the new contracts between agriculture and society ; 2) the alimentation, the quality and health ; 3) the sustainable production systems ; 4) Europe and other part of the world ; 5) Citizenship, power and democracy. For each of these topics, the authors have exposed in this article the problematic and raised the key questions for the debate.

  Philippe Cacciabue, September 2000

• The Biodiversity Benefits of Organic Farming

  2000

• WIR and the Swiss National Economy

  Published by the WIR Bank, Basel. Title of German original: “WIR in unserer Volkswirtschaft”

  Tobias Dr. Studer, 1998

• Interest and Inflation Free Money. Creating an excange medium tat works for everybody and protects the earth

  Seva International; 1995 by Margrit Kennedy

  Margrit Kennedy, 1995

• Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

  Final Study Part II. National Reports 5 October 2010

2 Charter/Manifesto

• Manifesto of the Solidarity Economy Europe Network Barcelona 2011. The Globalisation of solidarity

  September 2011

• Lux’09 Déclaration

  IV Meeting Globalization of Solidarity, Lux’09

  April 2009

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

4 public contributions

• Practice and potential for the future of territorial pacts

  Paper for the conference “Promoting co-operative territorial economy to combat poverty and social exclusion” Brusssels, 23rd of November 2010

  Karl Birkhölzer, November 2010

• Development and perspectives of the Social Economy or the Third Sector in Germany

  paper for the 1st European Conference EMES, 27 to 29 of April 2005, ParisFrance,

  Karl Birkhölzer, January 2006

• Local Development in Emilia-Romagna: Alternatives in Action

  22 November 2005, RIPESS Conference, Dakar

  Matt Hancock, November 2005

• Local Economic Development and its Potential

  Paper for the seminar on “Local Economic Development”, organized by the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-Eastern Europe, 14th to 15th of April 2005 in Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Karl Birkhölzer, April 2005