This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoti
In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the
First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely sin
Building on theories of finance and distribution, and the political economy of finance, this book explains the influence of financial cooperatives on wealth and
Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the norma