Richard Pereira
Richard Pereira is an economist and researcher whose primary interests are labour studies, ecological economics and co-operative economics. His research has been recognized by the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF: (www.progressive-economics.ca)), which includes over 125 economists working in universities, the labour movement and research organizations, with the 2010 Graduate Essay prize. He has studied the co-operative economy of northern Italy at the University of Bologna (www.utrecht-network.org/en/site/bologna) Masters Program in Co-operative Economics. It is the most highly evolved co-operative economy in the world in which one-third of the economy is based on a participatory democratic organizational model, and much of the rest of the economy is comprised of independent micro-enterprises closely linked to the co-op sector, resulting in high levels of quality production, quality control and one of the most prosperous regional economies in Europe. Recently, he has helped develop the Canadian chapter of BIEN (biencanada.ca) Basic Income Earth Network (www.basicincome.org/bien/congress.html) and his work increasingly explores the changing nature of the commons, our social commonwealth and ethical approaches to its preservation and sustainable universal distribution.
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