Capital and the debt trap
Subtitle: learning from cooperatives in the global crisis
By: Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants ; foreword by Ian MacPherson
Contributors: Roelants, Bruno, 1954-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780230252387
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; Finance; Cooperative societies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory; External Debts; Case studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: The Mother Of All Crises?; title: Causes And Mechanisms; title: Shifting Control versus Ownership; title: Cooperatives: Importance, Resilience and Rationality; title: Natividad Island Divers' and Fishermen's Cooperative, Mexico : Managing Natural Resources to Generate Wealth; title: Ceralep Société Nouvelle, France : David and Goliath in the Global Economy; title: The Desjardins Cooperative Group : A Financial Movement For Quebéc's Development; title: The Mondragon Cooperative Group: Local Development With A Global Vision; title: The Global Crisis : Mother of all Warnings.