Table of Contents

Introduction ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones

The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones

Part 1: Governance and Public Action

Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism ~ Davide Arcidiacono Ivana Pais

Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms ~ Leonhard Plank

The Nonprofit Paradox after the Crisis: How to Survive within a Changing Scenario ~ Sandro Busso and Joselle Dagnes

Part 2: Housing and Urban Life

Planning with Citizenship: An Idea whose time has come in Greater Manchester? ~ Julie Froud, Mike Hodson, Sukhdev Johal, Hua Wei and Karel Williams

Housing and the grounded city: Rent extraction and social innovations ~ Massimo Bricocoli and Angelo Salento

Part 3: Water and Waste

Waste Management and Value Extraction in Italy: Where is the Citizen? Waste to Worth ~ Dario Minervini

Civil Society and the Movement for Public Water: Water Management and its Transformation in England and Italy ~ Sergio Marotta and Ferdinando Spina

Part 4: Food

Changing Food Supply Chains: The Role of Citizens and Civil Society Organisations in Working Towards a Social Economy ~ Fabio Mostaccio

Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundational Economy of Food ~ Kevin Morgan

Conclusion

Conclusions and New Policy Directions ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones

About the Author

Filippo Barbera is Professor of Economic Sociology in the CPS Department at the University of Turin and is affiliated with the Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Ian Rees Jones is Professor of Sociological Research at Cardiff University and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD).

Reviews

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"Dramatically advances our understanding of how societies can determine the moral standards that their economies must meet to establish a practical yet humane obligation to citizens." Mark Granovetter, Stanford University