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This book illustrates the potential for cooperatives -- organizations that are owned and democratically controlled by the people they serve -- to infuse the US economy with the basic value of democracy and to provide citizens with a means to effectively address the shortcomings of the market-driven economy. The book makes the case that cooperatives are the solution to many of the major economic, social, and environmental problems in the United States today. The basic tenet of the essay is that co-ops are democratically controlled and are motivated primarily by the goal of providing services to their members, not by generating profits for their owners and investors. As a result of this democratic, services-first design, co-ops are much more likely to avoid the negative consequences of economic institutions primarily driven by the quest for ever-increasing profits. This latter model of economic development has led to over 200 years of economic instability, inequality, and environmental degradation in the United States. In the coming decades, co-ops can lead the way to undoing these fundamental flaws in our economic system.
Paperback: 134 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 26, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 147829826X
ISBN-13: 978-1478298267
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
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This is a very short simple and basic book, a primer. It is very good for what it is but if you know much about this subject, you will find it too basic. For other books on the subject of cooperatives see:Adams, Frank and Gary Hansen, Putting Democracy to Work: Practical Guide, Berrett Koehler, 1993Albert, Michael & Robin Hahnel, Looking Forward: A Participatory Economy for the 21st Century, South End Press, 1991; The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, Princeton Univ. Press, 1991Benello, George et.al., Building Sustainable Communities: Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change, Bootstrap Press, 1989Benello, George, Krimerman, Len et.al., From the Ground Up: Essays of George Benello, South End Press, 1991Krimerman, Len & Frank Lindenfeld, When Workers Decide, New Society Publishers, 1992Lindenfeld, Frank & Joyce Rothschild-Whitt eds., Workplace Democracy and Social Change, Porter Sargent, 1982Montgomery, David, Worker's Control in America, Cambridge University Press, 1981Morrison, Roy, We Build the Road as We Travel, Mondragon: A Cooperative Solution, New Society, 1991Quarter, Jack & Paul Wilkinson, Building a Community Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience, Univ. Toronto Press, 1996Restakis, John, Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, New Society Publishers, 2010Rosen, Corey, Understanding Employee Ownership, ILR Press, 1991Rothschild, Joyce & J.
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