People Over Capital
The Co-operative Alternative to Capitalism
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2014
224 pages
978-1-78026-162-1 (ISBN)
Description
Capitalism is failing and ordinary people are forced to pay the price. With such deep-rooted problems there is real hunger for alternative ways of organizing our economic system. Answering the question, "Is there a co-operative alternative to capitalism?" this book showcases fourteen responses from economists, academics, co-operators, politicians, and campaigners, exploring both the success and untapped potential of co-operatives. Each essay approaches from a new direction-from the flourishing open source movement to cases of co-operative success in different parts of the world.
Rob Harrison has written and commented widely on social change issues for more than twenty years.
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The Co-operative Alternative to Capitalism
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Rob Harrison, is editor of Ethical Consumer magazine, and has written and commented widely on social change issues for more than 20 years.
Content
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- History and current opportunities
- 1. The potential for an alternative economy
- 2. Can co-ops crowd out capitalism?
- 3. Past, present and future
- A new co-operative economy
- 4. Towards a new economy based on co-operation
- 5. Between the market and the state
- 6. Working towards economic democracy
- Co-operatives, open source and new global networks
- 7. Open source capitalism
- 8. Renovating the house of co-operatives
- Co-operatives and a sustainable future
- 9. Is there a co-operative solution to sustainable development?
- 10. Why we need to replace joint-stock companies with co-operatives in the sustainable economies of the future
- Co-operatives and the wider alternative economy
- 11. Co-operatives and their place in a global social economy
- 12. Experiments in solidarity economics - alternative financial organizations in France and Italy
- Critical perspectives: why a world of co-operatives may not be enough
- 13. Rebuilding the collective spirit through the experience of co-ops
- 14. The false alternative of co-operative choice under capitalism
- Afterword: What one thing needs to change to make co-operatives the dominant business model?
- About the authors: short biographies
- Index
