Capital and the debt trap : learning from cooperatives in the global crisis

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Title:

Author:

Du Vivier, Bruno Roelants.

ISBN:

9780230252387

Personal Author:

Du Vivier, Bruno Roelants.

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Mother Of All Crises? -- Causes And Mechanisms -- Shifting Control versus Ownership -- Cooperatives: Importance, Resilience and Rationality -- Natividad Island Fishermen's and Divers' 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 Quebec's Development -- The Mondragon Cooperative Group: Local Development With A Global Vision -- The Global Crisis: Mother of all Warnings.

Abstract:

"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"--

Subject Term:

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Consumer cooperatives.

Added Author:

Sánchez Bajo, Claudia B.

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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.