The course aims at providing the students with key analytical tools in order to understand the functioning of both cooperative firms and nonprofit organizations within advanced economies (the so called `post-industrial economies’), including their relationships with Government and for-profit firms as well as their ability to provide `relational goods’ and favour (both directly and indirectly, via their contribution to the diffusion of `corporate social responsibility’) the accumulation of bridging social capital.
1. From Government Failure and Market Failure to a constructive view of the role of nonprofit organizations within contemporary advanced economic systems
2. Noncooperative Game Theory and the analysis of nonprofit institutions: collective action dilemmas and nonselfish behaviours
3. Fair Trade Organizations and their compatibility with market economy
4. Positional goods, relational goods and creation of social capital
5. Civil economy and happiness paradoxes
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| ECCHIA G. - ZARRI L. | Capitale sociale e accountability: il ruolo del bilancio di missione nella governance delle organizzazioni non profit, in FAZZI L. - GIORGETTI G. (a cura di), Il bilancio di missione nelle organizzazioni non profit. Teoria e pratica | Guerini & Associati | 2005 | 888335611X | |
| BRUNI L.-ZAMAGNI S. | Economia civile | Il Mulino | 2004 | 8815096736 | |
| MUSELLA M.-D'ACUNTO S. | Economia politica del non profit | Giappichelli | 2000 | ||
| TONDINI G. - ZARRI L. | Felicità e dimensione relazionale delle interazioni economiche, in Etica ed Economia | Nemetria | 2005 | ||
| BECCHETTI L.-PAGANETTO L. | Finanza etica. Commercio equo e solidale. La rivoluzione silenziosa della responsabilità sociale | Donzelli | 2003 | 8879898132 | |
| Bruni L., Zarri L. | La grande illusione. False relazioni e felicità nelle economie di mercato contemporanee (Edizione 2) | Impresa Sociale | 2007 |
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