Videos and social media coverage spotlight The Cooperative Economy by Dovev Lavie, showcasing its vision for a prosocial digital platform addressing societal challenges like inequality, overconsumption, and resource abuse. Explore engaging YouTube videos where Lavie breaks down the book's core ideas. In "The Cooperative Economy A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (IMD channel, May 2024), he discusses with Katharina Lange how cooperative principles can redesign markets for shared well-being. Another clip, "The Cooperative Economy - YouTube" (Jan 2024), offers a concise overview of ethical exchange systems. "The Cooperative Economy in a Nutshell" further distills the framework into key takeaways on community-driven economics. Podcasts amplify the buzz. The SDA Bocconi "The benefits of a cooperative economy" episode features Lavie on sustainability, equality, and tech redirection via price adjustments and incentives. Additional audio from Bocconi Knowledge and Amit Paul dives into practical implementation against Big Tech dominance. On social media, LinkedIn posts by Dovev Lavie generate discussion. A July 2025 update promotes the book as a home for cooperative ideals, while an October 2024 share highlights its solution to grand challenges. These shares link back to public appearances and media, fostering engagement around prosocial behavior and Ostrom-inspired governance. This multimedia presence underscores the book's relevance, drawing academics, business leaders, and sustainability advocates to its call for collective action in a strained economy. Platforms like YouTube and LinkedIn serve as vital hubs for spreading Lavie's innovative blueprint.
The Symplatform conference (https://symplatform.com) brings together academic knowledge and practice to study what platforms are, how they work and what they can become for people, organizations and our society. This year the conference was held at the Politecnico di Milano. My paper “Should I pay or should I go? A prosocial market platform for reducing economic ineuality” won the Best Conference Paper Award. The paper, coauthored with Remus Ilies, Garrett Brady, Cédric Gutierrez, and Uriel Stettner, reports findings from my experiment of a prosocial market platform that reduces economic inequality. The study tests the price subsidization design principle which I discuss in my book “The Cooperative Economy”. It shows how such price subsidization promotes a norm of prosocial behavior in a community, despite lack of social cohesion and limited prosocial inclinations of participants. This price subsidization platform gained sufficient support from high earners to subsidize low earners in their community, thus enhancing the purchasing power of low earners. It also produced greater satisfaction compared to the conventional market system, suggesting that digital platforms that have traditionally harmed society can benefit it with the right design.
