Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and Social Business

About

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

Can social business and cooperatives be pioneers of change towards degrowth and if so how? What are the challenges?

What forms of entrepreneurship are compatible with degrowth? Is there a future for the profit sector?

Papers

S. Abdallah, BRAINPOoL: Lessons from the Beyond GDP world for degrowth, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon jeffrey_beyondGDPIndicatorsForADegrowthTransition_Brainpool.pdf (2.19 MB)PDF icon 3464.pdf (89.04 KB)
A. Acosta, Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism  in Latin America, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3791.pdf (41.08 KB)
A. Acosta, Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3792.pdf (50.53 KB)
A. Acquarone and Prohias, J. Pàmias, The Foundation Theory, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3497.pdf (307.73 KB)
J. - L. Aillon, Guindani, M., Dal Santo, E., Zummo, S., Montis, A., and Pallante, M., How to built, organize and manage degrowth movements rooted in the territory?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Aill.pdf (253.23 KB)
R. Aitken, Building a social and ecological economy through a social accounting model of banking, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3636.pdf (104.07 KB)
B. Akbulut, Adaman, P. Fikret, Arsel, M., and Avci, D., De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3737.pdf (70.75 KB)

Results from Leipzig 2014

Vision

  • We have to get rid of large scale “for-profit” corporations.

  • Make an economy in the sense of “people before profit”.

Transformation

  • What role can private Enterprise play in the Transition towards Solidarity Economy?
  • Alternative Enterprises as bottom up powers, together with social movements and civil society

  • Legal Framework?

  • Localization?

  • Consumer Awareness?

Results from Barcelona 2010

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More.