Social Economy

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Social Business: Key to a Sustainable Future
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Social Business: Key to a Sustainable Future

From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

In this chapter, Hasan presents social business, a non-dividend and socially driven enterprise model championed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. 13 $1.30 Add
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State Power and Commoning

State Power and Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

Chapter nine considers how commoning would progress if it were supported by the state in the form of governance and provisioning, and anticipates the challenges of doing so. It clarifies the … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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Sustain This

Sustain This

The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship

From: In The Business of Change

Whether working on a single issue at a time or adopting a larger, far-reaching lens of advocacy, policy and systems change, these entrepreneurs are establishing ventures with a comprehensive … 16 $1.60 Add
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Sustainable Business Education: Upskilling Youth in Developing Economies
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Sustainable Business Education: Upskilling Youth in Developing Economies

From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

In this chapter, Merali, examines how artificial intelligence and data analytics can close the green-skills gap in developing economies across South Asia, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and … 20 $2.00 Add
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Take Commoning to Scale

Take Commoning to Scale

From: Free, Fair and Alive

The final chapter addresses how commons can be scaled up, and why it is important to believe that commons have a significant contribution to make toward global change. The authors introduce the … ; 30 $3.00 Add
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The OntoShift to the Commons

The OntoShift to the Commons

From: Free, Fair and Alive

In the second chapter, the authors dig into the question of why commons have been so ignored in the modern era, despite their long history, and suggest that a new ontological perspective is … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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The Power of Partnerships

The Power of Partnerships

From: In The Business of Change

Working in tandem with companies, suppliers, designers, anyone down the supply chain, to educate and influence their behavior would be key to her success. It’s become key for many social … 16 $1.60 Add
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The Rediscovery of the Commons

The Rediscovery of the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Social Life of Commoning

The Social Life of Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

This chapter unpacks the first part of the Triad commons framework, the Social Life of Commoning. They propose that the socials aspects of commoning are rooted in patterns of cooperation, sharing … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” Myth

The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” Myth

From: Think Like a Commoner

For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several … 15 $1.50 Add
Think Like a Commoner

Think Like a Commoner

A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures – relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. Think Like a Commoner … 211 View
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Towards Financial Sustainability

Towards Financial Sustainability

From: In The Business of Change

If you took a survey of social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the startup phase, and asked them about their top challenges, you’d no doubt hear one constant refrain: funding. That is … 16 $1.60 Add
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Vax and spend
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Vax and spend

Trudeau's income support programs before and after the pandemic

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter evaluates the Trudeau government’s social spending policies, particularly income support programs before and after the pandemic. 15 $1.50 Add