apologies for the belated response Andreas, I was on the road, I incorporated your source material here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Welfare_Economy On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all
I wrote a detailed critique of Felbers "Gemeinwohlökonomie"
http://www.streifzuege.org/2011/neue-werte-im-sonderangebot-die-gemeinwohlok...
Here is a short version: http://www.social-innovation.org/?p=1821
Here I made suggestions for amendments: http://www.social-innovation.org/?p=1843
Basically, "Gemeinwohlökonomie" is a sort of Corporate Social Responsibility, enlarged by enhanced labelling efforts and the image of a "new economic model".
On a theoretical level, it adopts a market-socialist view, but without the state capacities necessary for such an approach to be viable (within its own framework)
best, Andreas
Dear Ira,
I was not familiar with that particular instance, and would be interested in english language material if you want me to spread the word more,
but here already in cc two potentially interested audiences,
hope all is well, I'm on the road until April 5, with nearly zero internet time,
Michel
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Ira Mollay <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Michel,
I'm not sure whether you have already come across "Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie", a model for an economy that aims at maximizing social benefit instead of profit. The movement was started here in Austria by Christian Felber and his book , "l'economie citoyenne" will be published in France on 6 April.
We have several teams here working on making things very concrete and, in particular, on balance sheets that include the social and environmental impact. 50 enterprises are pioneering it this year and will present their balance sheets to the public in autumn. They are now looking for enterprises in France (or the French-speaking world) to act as pioneers in their country as well.
There is already a French version of the website on http://www.gemeinwohl-oekonomie.org/fr/
Maybe you see ways of spreading the information to relevant target groups.
Cheers and enjoy the beach :-) Ira
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