Intelligent economic ideas focus of Imagine2012

Behavioural economists demonstrate that if business owners try to motivate their workers with financial incentives productivity often declines.

By offering employees workplace autonomy, the opportunity to excel and improve the world, productivity is raised.

The Imagine 2012 conference in Quebec City in October will focus on intelligent economic ideas like the above.

It begins with the proposal that to "Build a Better World" first a better economy must be built.The Imagine 2012: Conference on Co-operative Economics will provide co-operative leaders with ideas and tools to build a better world based on a better economy.

Internationally renowned proponents of a ‘new economy’ will explore the relationships of their specialties to a cohesive body of “co-operative economics” which could be utilized internationally, at the conference.

Imagine 2012 and the Summit are the product of collaboration by MMCCU, the International Co-operative Alliance and the Desjardins Group, Canada’s largest co-operative financial services provider, and a leader in co-op development.

For more information contact: Tom Webb, Imagine 2012 Manager at tom.webb@smu.ca