Capital and the debt trap : learning from cooperatives in the global crisis / Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants ; foreword by Ian MacPherson.

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.

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