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Training course Registration: 40€ Organization: CES / Le Monde Diplomatique (Portuguese edition) Coordination: José Castro Caldas e Ana Cordeiro Santos As consequence of liberal thinking hegemony, an individualist notion of common good, common goods and social costs became predominant, facing common good as a mere sum of individual goods and understanding common goods and social costs based on the assumption of an egotistical trend of individuals, leading them to consider only what is private. Soon, individualist notions of common good had to face some paradoxes: “rational” individuals would not be able to collectively define the common good, and, even if they could define it, they would be unable to act collectively in order to guarantee the goods which they had decided to pursue or prevent the harms affecting everyone. However, reality contradicts these pessimistic views: there is no public decision-making which is exempt from the need of (questionable and questioned) explanations in terms of common good; collective action is precarious but it exists. Beyond “economic harmonies” and “pessimistic paradoxes”, a Common Goods Economics begins to form itself. This was even surprisingly acknowledged with the awarding of the last Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Elinor Ostrom. The goal of this Training Course is to present the advances in this field – acknowledgement of the processes leading to the definition of common good and of the requirements for collective action. July 3rd, 2010 9.30-10.30 Defining common good and acting collectively (José Castro Caldas, CES)
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