Co-Designing Economies in Transition - Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research.

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Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino is Aggregate Professor in the Department of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy. For the past 20 years he has been working towards the integration of social sciences and contemplative knowledge in action-research and higher education.

Zachary David Walsh is Researcher at Claremont School of Theology, USA, and a research specialist at Toward Ecological Civilization, USA; the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, USA; and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany.