Central Bank of Nigeria Library

Capital and the debt trap :

Sánchez Bajo, Claudia B.

Capital and the debt trap : learning from cooperatives in the global crisis / Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants ; foreword by Ian MacPherson. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xiv, 274 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Mother Of All Crises? -- Causes And Mechanisms -- Shifting Control versus Ownership -- Cooperatives: Importance, Resilience and Rationality -- Natividad Island Divers' and Fishermen's Cooperative, Mexico : Managing Natural Resources to Generate Wealth -- Ceralep Société Nouvelle, France : David and Goliath in the Global Economy -- The Desjardins Cooperative Group : A Financial Movement For Quebéc's Development -- The Mondragon Cooperative Group: Local Development With A Global Vision -- The Global Crisis : Mother of all Warnings.

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.

9780230252387 (hbk) 0230252389 (hbk)

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Cooperative societies--Finance--Case studies.
Debts, External--Case studies.
Economic theory.
Economic Development.
Microeconomics.
Comparative economics.

HG4027.4 / .S26 2011

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