Capital and the debt trap : learning from cooperatives in the global crisis / Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants ; foreword by Ian MacPherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez Bajo, Claudia B.

Contributor:

Roelants, Bruno, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies--Finance--Case studies.

Cooperative societies.

Debts, External--Case studies.

Debts, External.

Cooperative societies--Finance.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230252387

0230252389

OCLC:

682891208