The 10th Annual MacPherson Talk featuring Joseph Heath: Are Co-operatives More Virtuous than Corporations?
Event Details
- December 5, 2024
- 4:00 – 5:30 PM (Saskatchewan Time or Central Standard Time)
- This is a hybrid event and will take place in Prairie Room, Diefenbaker Building (101 Diefenbaker Place, University of Saskatchewan) and on Zoom
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Event Description
There are several sectors of the economy in which cooperatives have flourished, competing successfully against standard business corporations. The best explanation for their success is that they provide superior benefits to their members. The question that will be the focus of this talk is whether cooperatives also provide important benefits to society, such that non-members should prefer a cooperative economy to one dominated by business corporations. It has often been suggested that cooperatives are more virtuous, because they are more democratic, less hierarchical, less anti-social, and less apt to produce economic inequality. In this talk, Dr. Joseph Heath will evaluate these claims, while questioning whether co-operatives are all that different from corporations.
About our Speaker
Dr. Joseph Heath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Heath is a renowned and award-winning philosopher and author. He is the author of several books, both popular and academic, including Filthy Lucre and The Rebel Sell. His most recent book is titled, Cooperation and Social Justice.
About the MacPherson Talk
The MacPherson Talk is hosted annually and honours the late Dr. Ian MacPherson, one of the leading lights of the international co-operative movement. Historian, educator, author, and co-operative, Dr. MacPherson personified the relationship between Canadian co-operative academics and co-op practitioners.
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