2 Papers on the reduction of working hours

A Four-day Workweek: A Policy for Improving Employment and Environmental Conditions in Europe Can working less lead to a healthier economy and better environmental conditions? Which factors should be taken into consideration when forming an answer to this question? In this article Nicholas Ashford and Giorgos Kallis discuss how affluent economies often have shorter work-weeks and why, under the … Read more

Is the Cooperative Economy Next in a Post-Consumer World?

New article by SCORAI member Maurie Cohen. For a significant part of the 20th century, the Manufacturing Economy generated unprecedented material prosperity in the United States. Then, as well-paying factory jobs migrated to corners of the world where labor is much less expensive, it was the Information Economy or the Service Economy that provided gainful … Read more