Social and Solidarity Economy Web Information Systems

The Social and Solidarity Economy A Theoretical and Plural Framework

Economy is not one "natural" thing; it is always plural and socially constructed. Polanyi tought us that it was a mistake to see the economy as independent from society, as a selfregulating market. He insisted on the presence of different economic principles (market, redistribution, reciprocity) in concrete human economies. As for Mauss, he taught us that progress does not lie in seeking to rep...

Social and solidarity economy for sustainable development: its premises – and the Social Economy Basel example of practice

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Green Political Economy II: Solidarity and Sharing

'What's the point of a street of fifty houses all going to work to earn money to each buy a separate lawnmower, if you could work shorter hours, earn less money, then buy one lawnmower for the whole street to take turns to share it?'

Web-Information Systems 2.0? Social, Economical, and Technological Challenges

The state of the art in ontology building and modeling in general widely disregards the fact that the behavior of rational actors in the modeling process will be driven by individual economic incentives. Quite obviously, creating an ontology requires resources (e.g. labor) from the contributing individuals. Now, it is for many domains a completely open research question whether the gain in auto...

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity