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X-WR-CALNAME:PPE Speaker Series: “Are Cooperatives More Virtuous than Cor
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DESCRIPTION:Join us in Davie 112 on Tuesday\, February 4 at 6:30pm! This ev
 ent is free and open to the public. There will be a Q&A session and pizza 
 following the lecture!\n\n \n\nAbstract: “There are several sectors of t
 he economy in which cooperatives have flourished\, competing successfully 
 against standard business corporations. The best explanation for their suc
 cess 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 coop
 erative economy to one dominated by business corporations. It has often be
 en suggested that cooperatives are more virtuous\, because they are more d
 emocratic\, less hierarchical\, less anti-social\, and less apt to produce
  economic inequality. My goal will be to evaluate these claims. The centra
 l challenge stems from the observation that cooperatives are not nearly as
  different from corporations as is commonly assumed.”\n\n \n\nJoseph Hea
 th is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto\, where he was 
 formerly the director of the Centre for Ethics. He also teaches at the Sch
 ool of Public Policy and Governance. Heath’s work “is all related\, in
  one way or another\, to critical social theory in the tradition of the Fr
 ankfurt School.” He has published both academic and popular writings\, i
 ncluding the bestselling The Rebel Sell\, which he coauthored with Andrew 
 Potter. His philosophical work includes papers and books in political phil
 osophy\, business ethics\, rational choice theory\, action theory\, and cr
 itical theory.
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SUMMARY:PPE Speaker Series: “Are Cooperatives More Virtuous than Corporat
 ions?” with Joseph Heath (University of Toronto)
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