The project has as its main objectives:
- To assess the diversity of meanings and value regimes operating in economic practice
- To analyze regulatory frameworks that stabilize ordinary economic behavior
- To establish the articulation of micro-practices with macro-phenomena in the global economy
- To produce a new theoretical model of economic behavior that pays attention to grassroots economies and economics
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The Grassroots Economics project is a five-year endeavor (2013-2018) that aims at having a long-lasting impact on theory and policy-making. Time Chart
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| September 2013 February 2015 | Project planning at University of Barcelona. Country profiles, fieldwork protocols, preliminary assessment of economic models | |
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| Februay 2015 February 2016 | Ethnographic fieldwork starts in 10 locations across Southern Europe. Fieldwork reports on grassroots economic practices, folk and expert models and institutional frameworks | |
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| February 2016 August 2017 | Analysis of data, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Development | |
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| September 2016 September 2018 | Models Assessment. Establish the articulation of micro-practices with macro-phenomena in the global economy | |
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| September 2017 September 2018 | Develop a new theoretical model of economic process that pays attention to grassroots practices and folk models | |
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| February 2019 | Project Ends | |