Capital and the Debt Trap: Learning from Cooperatives in the Global Crisis . Bruno Roelants, Claudia Sanchez Bajo
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Capital and the Debt Trap: Learning from Cooperatives in the Global Crisis Bruno Roelants, Claudia Sanchez Bajo ebook pdf
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Page: 289
ISBN: 0230252389, 9780230252387
'This elegant and deeply-informed inquiry weaves together several themes, each significant in itself, even more so as their relations are developed: the deep and persistent crises of capitalism, in the current phase highly financialized, and the fundamental issue of decision-making in social and economic institutions, with special attention to the elaborate growth of cooperatives of many varieties, the forms they have taken, the problems they face, and their great promise in overcoming economic crises, social malaise, and democratic dysfunction.' - Professor Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 'Capital and the Debt Trap combines a searing critique of the unstable debt- and-profit driven system that came close to final collapse in the Great Crisis with a fine portrait of the modern cooperative alternative that exists today in Mexico, Canada, France and Spain. Are these perhaps the small creatures that will survive and flourish after the great dinosaurs are gone? Let's hope so.' - James K. Galbraith, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and University of Texas at Austin 'This book is simply a masterpiece on cooperativism for the xxi century. It outstandingly demonstrates why cooperatives are more resilient to the crisis and avoid falling into the dept trap and its implacable cohort of inhuman effects. A decisive contribution not only to economic democracy but also to Democracy as a political system.' - Yves Cabannes, University College London 'This is a timely and important book which both analyses current economic turmoil and shows how the crisis may foment new and more co-operative forms of enterprise. Anyone interested in advancing the cause of participatory ownership as one means of guarding against recurrent crises should read this book.' - George Irvin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 'This book presents a thoughtful and exciting consideration of the roles cooperatives can play - and should be expected to play - today ... It deserves to be widely read and discussed within and across the boundaries that have long divided cooperative proponents and the general public.' - Ian MacPherson, University of Victoria, Canada 'This book is a major step forward in understanding the working of co-operative economies. Its appearance could hardly have been more timely. At a point when the global financial system and the models of economic governance have been thrown into question, it shows how it is that co-operative financial systems are more crisis resistant than contemporary private banking, and how finance can be structured to service long term local and industrial growth rather than subject it to the imperative of short term profitability. More generally, the authors describe an architecture of co-operative governance that has not only been innovative and resilient but is particularly well suited to any post crisis world that is reshaped round multi stakeholder engagement.' - Robin Murray, LSE Global Governance and author of Co-operation in the Age of Google.
BRUNO ROELANTS is secretary general of CICOPA (sectoral organiaation of the International Cooperative Alliance for industrial, artisans’ and service cooperatives) and of its regional organization CECOP CICOPA-Europe. He was previously in charge of development projects in the field of cooperatives in China, India and Central - Eastern Europe. He coordinated the group of representatives of organisations of cooperatives in Geneva during the 2001-2002 negotiations on the ILO Recommendation 193 on the Promotion of Cooperatives.
CLAUDIA SANCHEZ BAJO is currently freelance researcher and consultant and chief editor of the
Chine Actuelle review, Brussels. She worked at the information and advisory center of Argentina’s national parliament, then in teaching and research with various institutions in China, Germany and Brussels. She published, among other titles:
The Political Economy of Regionalism – Business Actors in Mercosur in the Petrochemical and Steel Industrial Sectors in 2006 (Maastricht: Shaker Media, 2001), and contributed to
The Political Economy of Regions and Regionalisms (Shaw, T, Boas, M, and Marchand, M. Ed, Palgrave, 2005). Her two main fields of research are the role of entrepreneurial actors in regional integration processes and cooperation processes between cooperatives (groups, chains etc).
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