Dr. John R. Whitman, visiting professor and interim director of the Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), announced today the forthcoming publication of Understanding the Social Economy of the United States by the University of Toronto Press in early 2015. Co-authored with Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, and Ann Armstrong, with a foreword by Lucy Bernholz, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of organizations with social goals – public sector nonprofits, civil society organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives, and other organizations with a social mission – under the rubric of the social economy.