The Cooperative Economy

2025 was the 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 and, for the occasion, we've been organizing a monthly reading circle for our Routledge Handbook together with the Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power (COWOP), a group of cooperative practitioners from Massachusetts and beyond. Together with COWOP's members, the respective authors and the editorial team, we've read twelve of the book's chapters. We've discussed and debated how contribute to the , what their and impact is, how new schemes could benefits coops, how to democracy, studied coops and , discussed and its relevance for coops, and much more!

Next Wednesday at 12PM EST(Boston)/6PM CET(Paris), we will wrap up the reading circle with an end-of-year online celebration where we will also be introducing our new Open Access volume, 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. We will be gathering to reflect on what we've learned and what the future brings for coops. Perhaps we'll get into some of the debates in the new book: on and coops, on , or on the diversity of global cooperative experiences, from to , and beyond.

Join us and let's wrap up this cooperative year festively!

If you would like to join us, please write me or Sarah Assefa (sarah.a(at)economicdemocracy.us) for an invite or follow this link next Wednesday: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/cowop/ (and please use the access code: "friend").

Yesterday, we visited the Munich-based software company, iteratec and spoke with one of its founders about their brilliant succession strategy: a cooperative was founded to buy out the founders using future profits as leverage. The two founders could have simply sold their company to the highest bidder, but felt that the unique and inclusive workplace environment may be threatened by new external owners. The model they chose in the end could serve as a prototype for solving Germany's succession crisis. Read more about Iteratec in our chapter "Old School Meets New: Global Efforts to Promote Cooperative Principles through Modern Employee-Buyout Innovations" in the forthcoming volume from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Global-Cooperative-Economics-and-Movements-A-Research-Companion/Warren-Ogunyemi-Guerreschi-Szulc/p/book/9781032875859

An event at the Northern Irish Parliament coming up November 13 to center cooperatives as tools for economic policy, with guests Jerome N Warren, Ian Adderly and a speech by the Northern Irish Economy Minister.

November Co-op Conference in Belfast - Co-operative Alternatives Co-operatives as Policy Tools for Economic and Social Transformation Date: Thursday the 13th November 2025 Time: 9.30 to 1.00 Venue: Long Gallery, Stormont, Belfast This event is particularly relevant in... Read more

Jerome Nikolai Warren will be on the radio live at 12PM (California) / 2PM (Chicago) / 3PM (New York) / 8PM (London) / 9PM (Berlin) today/night talking about our two books, The Routgledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management and Global Cooperative Economcs & Movements, and especially focusing on coops in Italy: Hear the recording here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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