1 Aug 2019
The first draft of the ‘ruminant economy’ was discussed at a meeting of the committee of the European Social Weeks, as background to our discussion of the theme for the 8th European Social Week. (more…)
Tags: christelijk sociaal, European Social Week, laudato si, publiek, ruminant economy, social dialogue, St. Franciscus
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31 Jul 2019
A few concluding statements containing the ideas that I would like to be remembered, and a couple of ideas I could not place in the essays.
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26 Jul 2019
There is labour, which is productive and which takes care of the material well-being of the community. In a healthy society, one where extreme scarcity (hunger, poverty) is not the paramount reality, productive labour produces a surplus (more…)
Tags: christelijk sociaal, democratie, economische ongelijkheid, European Social Week, gemeenschap, John Locke, precariaat, ruminant economy, solidariteit, St. Franciscus, vrijgevigheid
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25 Jul 2019
For about two centuries, the economy has been approached from the frame of labour and capital. The core is ‘productive’ labour: we make something that has more value than the sum of its ‘ingredients’: (more…)
Tags: basic income, economische ongelijkheid, European Social Week, labour unions, ruminant economy, social dialogue
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24 Jul 2019
Our image that accompanies unemployment is always about the jobs that have disappeared yesterday and the developments that have led to that situation. It is the employment policy of yesterday that politics and labour unions often are protecting. (more…)
Tags: basic income, European Social Week, labour unions, precariaat, ruminant economy, social dialogue
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23 Jul 2019
There is a short story by Heinrich Böll called “Anecdote to lower labour morality” (“Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral”, 1963). It is about a tourist who takes a picture of a man dozing on his fishing boat, shabby clothes, the picturesque poverty one sees on holiday in European fishing harbours. (more…)
Tags: christelijk sociaal, European Social Week, expulsions, ruminant economy
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