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Saturday, May 24, 2014

TRNN - Jackson Rising: New Economies Conference Highlights Cooperatives As Alternative Economic Model

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Cooperatives are tough to make work. Everyone should take a look at the Spanish Mondragon movement to see how they work when scaled up. As I said tough and you still need something to sell or make or service. Not just phony paper stocks and bonds. Wall st. is a bad model.

Jim Sande said...

I was involved in a food co-op up here years ago and it's gone on to be very successful. I'm all for it. A few years back there was a housing co-operative idea out of Europe that got some traction - co-housing it's called. I will check out the Spanish Mondragon movement.