Unit ECONOMICS OF THE THIRD SECTOR
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- 35990706
- Curriculum
- Filosofia ed economia civile
- Teacher
- Carlo Andrea Bollino
- Teachers
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- Carlo Andrea Bollino
- Hours
- 36 ore - Carlo Andrea Bollino
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims at allowing the student to understand rigorously and conceptually the world of the third sector, with insights on cooperative societies, the specific role of non-profit organizations in contemporary advanced economic systems, the characteristics of collective goods, the motivations of "homo reciprocans".
The course aims to raise various questions to the students: what role should the state and non-profit institutions play?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of institutional forms that do not have the goal of maximizing profits?
How do competition, market, equity and civil society coexist?
Are there alternative solutions to "privatization", on the one hand, and to "dirigims" of public institutions, on the other? - Reference texts
- L. Bruni e S. Zamagni, Economia civile. Efficienza, equità e felicità pubblica, Mulino, Bologna, 2004.
Enea Mazzoli, Stefano Zamagni (a cura di:), Verso una nuova teoria economica della Cooperazione, serie: “Storia e studi cooperativi", Mulino, Bologna, 2005 pp. 368
Pierangelo Mori, Economia della cooperazione e del non-profit, Carocci ed. Roma, 2015
Elinor Ostrom, Governare i beni collettivi, Marsilio, Venezia, 2009
Francesco, Lettera del Santo Padre Francesco per l’evento “Economy of Francesco”
[Assisi, 26-28 Marzo 2020], Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1 Maggio 2019
Homo reciprocans, (cap 9. Becchetti Bruni Zamagni, Microeconomia, Mulino, Bologna, 2014)
Economia Sociale, (cap 18. Acemoglu, Laibson, List, Microeconomia Pearson, 2016) - Educational objectives
- The course allows students to acquire competences for the development of professional profiles that can fill the role of managers of the activities and assets of third sector companies, which is different from that for the private firm.
- Prerequisites
- Course in Economics
- Teaching methods
- Classroom lectures
- Learning verification modality
- Individual project work
- Extended program
- Market economics and capitalist economics
Comparison between the capitalist enterprise and the cooperative enterprise
The limits of the efficiency criterion
The reasons for the cooperative identity
Governance of Cooperatives
Globalization of markets and cooperative competitiveness
Social cooperatives from the point of view of economic theory
Democracy equality solidarity in social cooperatives
The institutional forms of traditional cooperation
The mutual purpose in cooperative societies
The non-profit entities employment and production in the cooperative
The market of verifiable and non-verifiable variable membership fees
The equalitarian and proportional rules of the cooperative
Capital and finance of the cooperative enterprise
Consumer cooperation and related forms
Reflection on collective goods
Homo reciprocans
Economy of happiness