More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #48: The
Cooperative, Decentralized Society Advocate |
History
of the Co-operative Movement (from online encyclopedia) |
Consumer
Co-operatives (from online encyclopedia) |
Worker
Co-operatives (from
online encyclopedia) |
Economic
Democracy (from
online encyclopedia) |
Democratic
Socialism (from online encyclopedia) |
Community
Economics (from online encyclopedia) |
Grassroots
Democracy (from online encyclopedia) |
Community
Supported Agriculture (from online encyclopedia) |
Community
vs. Society (from online encyclopedia) |
Mutualism
(from online encyclopedia) |
Cohousing
(from online encyclopedia) |
The International Co-operative Alliance (organization
promoting "co-operative enterprises build a better world") |
The Co-operative Hall of Fame (honors
"heroes" of the co-operative movement; sponsored by The
Co-operative Development Foundation) |
Common
Good Finance (philosophy behind "Creating common good banks,
economics for a new society") |
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 |
"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)
|
"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) |
"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 |