The Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl (Z'GuG) is an interdisciplinary academic journal with relevance for professional practice (business, politics, civil society). The journal is published as a new series of the Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen (ZögU) - Journal for Public and Nonprofit Services. The thematic focus is on public economics in its diversity of sponsors, administrative theory, the social economy, the third sector, cooperatives, as well as topics of importance to civil society such as communalization, neighborhood and district concepts, network development, and social space building. The Z'GuG is open to fundamental theoretical and methodological discussions and takes up topics that require a cultural-scientific, but also philosophical opening, including the social (medical, nursing, educational, etc.) care debates, gender and other diversity controversies, commons theory, and gift and reciprocity research. From these openings, Z'GuG is dedicated to the meta-theme of the common good.
The global environmental problems had been unmistakable since the end of the 1960s. In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published Ecotopia, the first major ecological utopia, which confronted the crisis scenarios with a decidedly positive alternative....
The article investigates the utopian content of past futures of work. In a first step, he develops a systematics of economic utopias. Then he reconstructs the ideas of an end of work of Oscar Wilde, Paul Lafargue and Bertrand Russell and places them...
The discussion about an unconditional basic income (UBI) in Germany raises fundamental questions. Arguments for and against have been made more precise and yet the elementary prerequisites for living together that affect the relationship between UBI...
This article is dedicated to the question whether and to what extent transdisciplinary ‘real world laboratories’ (RWL) can be ‘real utopias' in two respects, since they address socio-political problems in a co-creative research mode and aim to...
The article examines demographic differences in the perception of performance characteristics of waste disposal services. A household survey was carried out inspired by the European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI). Factorial as well as regression...