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Author : Hans G. B. Hedlund
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171062742
Author : Kostas Karantininis,Jerker Nilsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402055430
This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.
Author : Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467714
In recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have increasingly turned to CSAs, farmers' markets, organic foods in supermarkets, and to joining and forming new food co-ops. In fact, food co-ops have been a viable food source, as well as a means of collective and democratic ownership, for nearly 180 years. In Food Co-ops in America, Anne Meis Knupfer examines the economic and democratic ideals of food cooperatives. She shows readers what the histories of food co-ops can tell us about our rights as consumers, how we can practice democracy and community, and how we might do business differently. In the first history of food co-ops in the United States, Knupfer draws on newsletters, correspondence, newspaper coverage, and board meeting minutes, as well as visits to food co-ops around the country, where she listened to managers, board members, workers, and members. What possibilities for change-be they economic, political, environmental or social-might food co-ops offer to their members, communities, and the globalized world? Food co-ops have long advocated for consumer legislation, accurate product labeling, and environmental protection. Food co-ops have many constituents-members, workers, board members, local and even global producers-making the process of collective decision-making complex and often difficult. Even so, food co-ops offer us a viable alternative to corporate capitalism. In recent years, committed co-ops have expanded their social vision to improve access to healthy food for all by helping to establish food co-ops in poorer communities.
Author : Tom Webb,Sonja Novkovic
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783600809
For the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy. The balance of power has shifted to protect private interests, resulting in unprecedented damage to the environment and society, with no solution in sight as more austerity and less government continues to be posited as the answer to the oncoming waves of crisis. It doesn't have to be this way. Featuring a remarkable roster of internationally renowned critical thinkers, Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era presents a feasible alternative for a more environmentally sustainable and equitable economic system - specifically, the co-operative business model. With more than 100 million people working in co-operatives and more than a billion members around the world, the time has never been better for co-operatives everywhere to recognise their potential to change the economic landscape. An essential book for students, policymakers and concerned citizens looking for a practical way to change the current stagnant economic paradigm.
Author : Armando Mendes,Emiliana L. D. G. Soares da Silva,Jorge M Azevedo Santos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400757394
The editors draw on a 3-year project that analyzed a Portuguese area in detail, comparing this study with papers from other regions. Applications include the estimation of technical efficiency in agricultural grazing systems (dairy, beef and mixed) and specifically for dairy farms. The conclusions indicate that it is now necessary to help small dairy farms in order to make them more efficient. These results can be compared with the technical efficiency of a sample of Spanish dairy processing firms presented by Magdalena Kapelko and co-authors.
Author : Barbara Hogenboom,Alex E. Fernández Jilberto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134125760
Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts, this is the first comprehensive volume to analyze conglomerates and economic groups in developing countries and transition economies. Using sixteen in-depth case studies it provides a comparative framework for the study of contemporary process of privatization, economic and financial liberalization and neoliberal globalization. Exploring the various causes and economic, social and political effects of the rise of ‘big business’ in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe, the main issues that are examined include: the nature of contemporary economic concentration the relations between ‘local’ and ‘external’ investors the impact on development, and on economic and political control over its direction the new role of the state towards conglomerates and economics groups the effects of economic and political changes on the legitimacy of the state and large companies. This volume is perfect as either a textbook or supplementary reading for students at all levels, as well as researchers and governmental and non-governmental professionals working and studying in the fields of international business and economic development.
Author : Jeremy Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000061173484
Author : Alice L. Waltmire
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477253045
In 1932, at age four, Alice moved with her family of five in the dilapidated house on the hill, above the creek bed where hobos, weary of riding the rails looking for work, often camped. The front yard had not a blade of grass and was riddled with gopher holes like the top of a salt or pepper shaker. In the upcoming years, the United States teetered on whether to enter the war already begun in Europe. Alice chronicles the vicissitudes of The Great Depression and perilous war years, while she and her family coped with the challenges of living their ordinary lives. The author brings warmth and humor as she relates wildly off-beat and entertaining incidents that lift the spirit with the joys of living, no matter the clouds of history.
Author : Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198288115
This volume examines the usefulness of neo-liberal theory and its prescriptions for tackling problems in developing countries, ranging through agriculture, industry, education, and health. It considers the impact of neo-liberal theory on the poor and on women, and assesses the neo-liberalrecord on trade, and financial and structural adjustment problems.
Author : Pekka Hussi
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89048611925
Author : Michael Colombo,Damian Scarf,Thomas Zentall
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889665976
Author : Zongchao Peng,Ben Ma,Taoxiong Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317479833
After several decades of reform and opening up, China has come to a critical period of transformation and development. How to improve the development strategies to effectively promote China's democratic politics has once again attracted the world's attention. This book compares the commons and differences between western and Chinese theories and practices of democracy model, and proposes a new democracy model for China's political reform — "cooperative-harmonious democracy". Absorbing the core values of democracy, this model draws on Chinese traditional "harmony and cooperation" and "people-oriented" thought, as well as modern cooperative game theory. More importantly, it adopts the new model to analyse some present practice cases in China, involving intra-party democracy, electoral democracy, and deliberative democracy. This book is a valuable theoretical innovation and a significant achievement in promoting the interdisciplinary research of political science and public management. It strategically reflects on how to promote the development of cooperative-harmonious democracy from the perspective of high-level design. The policy suggestions it proposed will be a valuable reference for policy-makers.
Author : Peter Ranis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783606511
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies. Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to the economic crisis. Going further yet, Ranis makes the novel argument that the constitutionally enshrined principle of 'eminent domain' can in fact be harnessed to create and defend worker cooperatives. Combining the work of key radical theorists, including Marx, Gramsci and Luxemburg, with that of contemporary political economists, such as Block, Piketty and Stiglitz, Cooperatives Confront Capitalism provides what is perhaps the most far-reaching analysis yet of the ideas, achievements and wider historical context of the cooperative movement.
Author : Lou Hammond Ketilson,University of Saskatchewan. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Publisher : Saskatoon : Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cooeprative societies
ISBN : 0888805055
Author : Laurie Giandomenico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087251363