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Co-operatives in a Post-growth Era

Creating Co-operative Economics

edited by Sonja Novkovic & Tom Webb

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Initial publish date
Sep 2014
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552666906
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $29.95

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Featuring a remarkable roster of internationally renowned critical thinkers, this book presents a feasible alternative for a more environmentally sustainable and equitable economic system. The time has never been better for cooperatives everywhere to recognize their own potential and ability to change the economic landscape.

 

About the authors

Sonja Novkovic, PhD, is a Professor in the Economics Department at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. She also teaches in the Masters for Managers of Co-operatives and Credit Unions Program. Her research interests are in worker co-operatives, democratic firms and employee participation, as well as comparative economic systems and the Social Economy. Besides other publications, she co-edited a book Co-operative Firms in Global Markets: Incidence, Viability and Performance (Elsevier Science, 2007), and guest edited a special issue of the U.K. Journal of Co-operative Studies in 2008. She is past President of the International Association for Economics of Participation and Vice President of Canadian Association for Studies in Cooperation. She is the recipient of the CASC merit award in 2010.

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Tom Webb is an adjunct professor at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University.

 

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