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020			_a9781032370651
082			_a306.34 _bLAV
100			_aLavie, Dovev _918042
245			_aThe cooperative economy: _ba solution to societal grand challenges
260			_bRoutledge _aNew York _c2023
300			_axvi, 267 p.
365			_aGBP _b41.99
500			_aTable of content: 1. Introduction 2. Some Imperfections of the Modern Economic System 3. Insufficient Attempts to Contain the Problems 4. Laying the Foundations for the Cooperative Economy 5. A Practical Guide for the Cooperative Economy 6. Conclusion and an Invitation\ [https://www.routledge.com/The-Cooperative-Economy-A-Solution-to-Societal-Grand-Challenges/Lavie/p/book/9781032370651?srsltid=AfmBOoqOTwgRgtd6NPEAogOoGRtN624mo5rV5mB0hQMxhhw_sGcp27ud]
520			_aWinner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the Rising To The Moment category. Finalist in the 2024 Indie Book Awards in the ‘Current Events’ category. Societal grand challenges have taken a toll on humanity, which finds itself at a crossroads. The concentration of wealth and economic inequality, the dominance of Big Tech firms, the loss of privacy and free choice, and the overconsumption and abuse of natural resources have been reinforced by globalization. Regulation, legislation, international treaties, and government and corporate policies have fallen short of offering sufficient remedies. This book identifies the root cause of these problems and offers a bold solution: a new economic system, free from the design flaws that have contributed to these societal grand challenges. The proposed cooperative economy is an ethical community-driven exchange system that relies on collective action to promote societal values while accounting for resource constraints. Unlike the modern economic system that is predominantly driven by opportunistic behavior, the cooperative economy moves away from a materialistic orientation and follows a more balanced perspective that leverages prosocial behavior. The book explains how this new system adopts design principles that promote self-sufficiency of communities, sustainability and entrepreneurship while limiting overconsumption and excessive profit-making. It enhances economic equality by leveraging price subsidization and by restricting salary differences. The book describes how the system serves the interests of consumers, vendors, and employees while preventing the accumulation of power by the platform owner who operates this system. This book is invaluable reading for policymakers who have been searching for solutions to some of the grand challenges that our society faces, and to managers who have sought alternative ways to cope with platform ecosystems, resource shortages, and supply chain disruptions. It revisits long-held assumptions, offering a treatise and food for thought, as well as a plan for concrete action. The book is also highly relevant to scholars and students in the study of economics, strategy, innovation, and public policy and to all readers who are concerned about the future of our planet and society. (https://www.routledge.com/The-Cooperative-Economy-A-Solution-to-Societal-Grand-Challenges/Lavie/p/book/9781032370651?srsltid=AfmBOoqOTwgRgtd6NPEAogOoGRtN624mo5rV5mB0hQMxhhw_sGcp27ud)
650			_aCommunity development _916404
650			_aCooperation _94034
650			_aInterpersonal relations
650			_aSustainable development
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