TY - BOOK AU - Sánchez Bajo,Claudia B. AU - Roelants,Bruno TI - Capital and the debt trap: learning from cooperatives in the global crisis SN - 9780230252387 (hbk) AV - HG4027.4 .S26 2011 U1 - 334 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Cooperative societies KW - Finance KW - Case studies KW - Debts, External KW - Economic theory KW - Economic Development KW - Microeconomics KW - Comparative economics N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -