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Indigenous North Americans continue to be overrepresented among those who are poor, unemployed, and with low levels of education. This has long been an issue of concern for Indigenous people…
The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network and the Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives joined forces to organize an international conference, focused on how and why…
When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are…
How Innovative, Self-Financing “Pollinator” Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a…
As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on ‘social and solidarity economy’ as a…
Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a…
The Triumph of Imbalance When the communist regimes of Eastern Europe began to collapse in 1989, pundits in the West had a ready explanation: capitalism had triumphed. They were wrong,…
Our current story is about Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. The market is omniscient. Earth…
How can we scale up the cooperative movement without losing our cooperative values? That is the question contributors seek to answer in this collection of essays. In the years since…
This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island. Defined by…
For the past three decades, economic theory and policy has been dominated by the neoclassical doctrine. The balance of power has shifted to protect private interests, resulting in unprecedented damage…
This book tells about an effort to educate the people by assisting them to become masters of their own economic destiny. Father Moses Coady, along with Father Jimmy Tompkins, Rev….
