Social Economy
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() IndexFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Index | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Innovate or Bust |
Leveraging what already exists and adopting new ideas into the mix can prove effective — and profitable. As we’ll see in this chapter, for social entrepreneurs it’s more than … | Elisa Birnbaum | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The point of this book is to gently dispel such prejudices and provide a short introduction to the commons. After encountering so much confusion about the commons over the years — and … | David Bollier | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In the introduction, the authors frame current modern challenges such as climate change and social inequity as issues that can be effectively addressed through a lens of the commons, which they … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction of Part II: The Triad of CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
The introduction to the second part of the book explains that in the coming section, the authors set out to articulate a comprehensive framework, called the Triad, for commons and commoning. The … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction to Part III: Growing the CommonsverseFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This introduction to the third part takes stock of what the book has covered so far, and indicates that the third part will deal with the issue of how commons fit into the context of larger … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Language and the Creation of CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In this chapter, the authors begin with illustrating how language shapes our views of the world, and then argue that we need new language to begin the ontological shift necessary to appreciate … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 40 | 2019 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() Living Without Approval: Stateless Democracy in RojavaFrom: Civilizing the State |
Living Without Approval: Stateless Democracy in Rojava questions the role of the nation-state via a case study of the Rojava region in northeast Syria, where democratic confederalism is emerging … | John Restakis | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NotesFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Notes | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() Peer Governance Through CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 44 | 2019 | $4.40 Add |
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From ![]() Perchance to Scale |
Though many social entrepreneurs are proponents of scale, the goal is a more difficult one for them to achieve than for traditional enterprises. For one thing, balancing the objectives of profit … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preface: Why Read This Book?From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Kotler and Hasan argue that sustainability has become essential to business viability in the mid-2020s. Set against the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the climate crisis, their book … | Khalid Hasan; Philip Kotler | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Provisioning Through CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter is about the ten key patterns of production or provisioning in the Triad framework of the commons. They also explain the underlying goals of provisioning in a commons-oriented world … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Purpose-Driven Firms and Why They are SuccessfulFrom: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Wali, Ahmed, Rahman, and Ferdous explore how firms like Patagonia, Unilever, and Danone embed social and environmental missions into core operations, moving beyond profit maximisation. | Faisal Wali; Tanvir Ahmed | 25 | 2025 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Relationalize PropertyFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Chapter eight explores pathways to relationalize property, beginning with a case study of a food cooperative store. They then make the case for relationalizing property. There are case studies … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 45 | 2019 | $4.50 Add |
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From ![]() Rethinking PropertyFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
The seventh chapter examines the relationship between property law and ideas of ownership and commons, and finds them to be largely incompatible. The authors propose ways to rethink property and … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 29 | 2019 | $2.90 Add |








