Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants ; foreword by Ian MacPherson
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
xiv, 274 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index
Introduction -- The Mother of all crises? -- Causes and mechanisms: the crisis as a debt trap -- Shifting control versus ownership -- Cooperatives: importance, resilience and rationality -- Natividad Island ivers' and fishermen's cooperative, Mexico: managing natural resources to generate wealth -- Ceralep Société Nouvelle, France: David and Goliath in the Global Economy -- The Desjardins Cooperative Group: a financial movement for Québec's development -- The Mondragon Cooperative Group: local development with a global vision -- The global crisis: mother of all warnings
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"The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the economic system. This book uses four case studies of cooperatives to give an in-depth analysis on how they have braved the crisis and continued to generate wealth"--