Canada's housing co-ops gather to discuss the need for affordable homes - Co-operative ... - 0 views
How community pubs and shops are helping villages thrive - Co-operative News - 0 views
FairCoin activates the world's first 'co-operative' blockchain - Co-operative News - 0 views
Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth - Commons Transition - 0 views
EU agreement on sustainable development highlights role of co-ops - Co-operative News - 0 views
Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op | P2P Foundation - 0 views
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Candidate Donald Trump made a campaign stop in February 2016 hosted by South Carolina’s Broad River Electric Cooperative.
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By the onset of the Great Depression, few people in the rural United States had electricity at home—about 10 percent. The power companies that had lit up the cities simply didn’t see enough profit in serving far-flung farmers. But gradually some of those farmers started forming electric cooperatives—utility companies owned and governed by their customers—and strung up their own lines.
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We typically think of our democratic institutions as having to do with politicians and governments. But there are democratic businesses, too—not just these electric co-ops, but also hulking credit unions, mutual-insurance companies, and ubiquitous cooperative brands from Land O’Lakes to the Associated Press. Their democracy is fragile. When it’s not exercised or noticed, these creatures act on their own volition.
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Europe's Ugly Future: A review of Varoufakis, Galbraith & Stiglitz - Foreign ... - 0 views
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Fifteen years ago, when the EU established its single currency, European leaders promised higher growth due to greater efficiency and sounder macroeconomic policies, greater equality between rich and poor countries within a freer capital market, enhanced domestic political legitimacy due to better policies, and a triumphant capstone for EU federalism. Yet for nearly a decade, Europe has experienced just the opposite.
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Since 2008, inflation-adjusted GDP in the eurozone has stagnated, compared with an expansion of more than eight percent in European countries that remain outside.
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In this situation, a lost decade may well become a lost generation.
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Connecting the Dots 8: The Commons as the Response to the Structural Crises of the Glob... - 0 views
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In our contribution, we want to stress the key importance of what we call a “value regime,” or simply put, the rules that determine what society and the economy consider to be of value. We must first look at the underlying modes of production — i.e. how value is created and distributed — and then construct solutions must that help create these changes in societal values. The emerging answer for a new mode of value creation is the re-emergence of the Commons.
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In our view, the dominant political economy has three fatal flaws.
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Pseudo-Abundance
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How to resist the exploitation of digital gig workers | Red Pepper - 0 views
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