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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #48:
Liking Cooperation-Based Communities |
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The International Co-operative Alliance (organization
promoting "co-operative enterprises build a better world") |
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The Co-operative Hall of Fame (honors
"heroes" of the co-operative movement; sponsored by The
Co-operative Development Foundation) |
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Common
Good Finance (philosophy behind "Creating common good banks,
economics for a new society") |
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Historic
Foundations of Cooperative Philosophy, by Greg Lawless |
| The University of Wisconsin Center
for Co-operatives |
| Centre
for Co-operative and Community Based Economy (U. of Victoria based,
promotes research, learning) |
| Cooperative
Economics Resources |
| Bioregionalism:
A Model for a Self-Sufficient and Democratic Economy by Tristan Bove (from
Earth.Org March 16 2021)
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"The
Bikes that Broke Free" (anarchist activists inspire co-operative venture, from The Economist Dec 19 2017) |
| Food Co-ops in America by Annie Meis Knupfer
(more about this 2013 book from Cornell University Press) |
| Africa's
Savings and Credit Co-operatives (report from The Economist
July 22 2017) |
| "When
Workers Are Owners"
(article from The Economist
August 22, 2015) |
| "Lending
to Poor Farmers--Seeding the Market" (report on success of rural
collectives from The Economist March 14 2015) |
| "Interview:
The Deep Roots of African American Cooperative Economics" by Mira
Luna (April 28 2014 interview)
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"Why
We Need a Bank at the Post Office" by John Nichols (article
from The Nation March 3 2014) |
| "Mondragon: Trouble in
Workers' Paradise" (article about world's largest co-ops in
Spain from The Economist November 9 2013) |
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"What's
Minted in Berkshire County Stays There: Finding Reward in Local Currency"
(report on PBS News Hour Sep 5 2013) |
| "Time
Banks Help Spaniards Weather Economic Crisis" by Lauren Frayer (Sep
2012 story on NPR) |
| "A
Co-operative Economy: The Time is Now" by Carmen Lianes (August
26 2011 Green for All blog) |
| "Solidarity-Based
and Co-operative Economy and Ethical Business" by S. Buglione, R.
Schulter (2010 paper) |
| "A
Co-operative Economy--What Might it Look Like?" by Jake Karlyle
(October 2005 conference paper) |
| "How
a Community Based Co-op Economy Might Work" by Dave Pollard (August
2010 article) |
| Co-operative
Economics--An Interview with Jaroslav Vanek (Cornell University Economics
Professor) |
| The Case for Workers' Co-ops by Robert Oakeshott
(read excerpts of this 1990 book at Google Books) |
| Beyond
Statism and the Market Economy: A New Concept of Democracy, by Takis
Fotopoulos |
| Economics
of Transition from State-Capitalist to Cooperative Enterprises, by Roger
McCain |
| The
Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn
Toward the Local ed. Jerry Mander and
Edward Goldsmith (from Sierra Club
Books) |
| Sustainable
Community Economics |
| Institute
for Local Self Reliance |
| Institute
for Social Ecology |
| Local
Harvest (organization promoting "real food, real farmers, real
community") |
| Community
Economies Project |
| The
Cohousing Association of the United States |
| Global
Ecovillage Network |
| Community
Supported Agriculture (from USDA's Alternative Farming System's
Information Center) |
| Cooperative
Economics: An Interview with Jaroslav Vanek |
| Bioregional
Democracy (from online encyclopedia) |
| Planet
Drum Foundation ("a voice for bioregional sustainability,
education, and culture") |
| Cooperatives
and Microenterprise Projects are Successful in the Philippines |
| An
Overview of Decentralism by Kirkpatrick Sale |
| Beyond
Individualism and Centralization, by Dennis R. Fox |
| Cooperative
Economics--Movement for Beloved Community |
| Cooperative
/ Participatory Society vs. Socialist Society Debate (from Z
magazine) |
| The
Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin
Hahnel (online book) |
| Inclusive
Democracy and Participatory Economics, by Takis Fotopoulos |
| Democratic
Socialists of America |
| Rural
Cooperatives Center |
| National
Council of Farmer Cooperatives |
| National
Association of Housing Cooperatives |
| The
European Association of Cooperative Banks |
| quotes
related to cooperatives |
| quotes
related to community |