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THE COOPERATIVE,
DECENTRALIZED SOCIETY ADVOCATE
I prefer
cooperation to competition, since the latter
can bring out the worst in people. I prefer locally
controlled economic arrangements involving a mixture of
cooperative, employee-owned, and private businesses. I like voluntary, democratic
organizations in which people join hands in promoting
community, common good, and self reliance. I prefer
decentralized economic or government structures, since they can better
respond to local needs. I dislike big, authoritarian, centralized corporate or
government structures. Instead, I think that, while
planning can involve a whole bioregion, power and decision
making should
diffuse down to the lowest level possible, ideally to community,
neighborhood, individual -- and all would participate.
Related Words, Beliefs,
Background -- 30 entries
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #48: The
Cooperative, Decentralized Society Advocate |
|
Economic
Democracy (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Participatory
Economics (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Community
Economics (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Inclusive
Democracy (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Cooperative
(from online encyclopedia) |
|
Community
Supported Agriculture (from online enclycopedia) |
|
Microcredit
(from online encyclopedia) |
|
Grameen
Bank (from online encyclopedia) |
|
Grameen Bank (homepage
of those who pioneered microcredit) |
|
Common
Good Finance (philosophy behind "Creating common good banks,
economics for a new society") |
|
Historic
Foundations of Cooperative Philosophy, by Greg Lawless |
| The University of Wisconsin Center
for Co-operatives |
| Cooperative
Economics Resources |
| Beyond
Statism and the Market Economy: A New Concept of Democracy, by Takis
Fotopoulos |
| Economics
of Transition from State-Capitalist to Cooperative Enterprises, by Roger
McCain |
| Sustainable
Community Economics |
| Institute
for Local Self Reliance |
| Institute
for Social Ecology |
| Local
Harvest (organization promoting "real food, real farmers, real
community") |
| Community
Economies Project |
| Global
Ecovillage Network |
| Community
Supported Agriculture (from USDA's Alternative Farming System's
Information Center) |
| Cooperative
Economics: An Interview with Jaroslav Vanek |
| Bioregional
Democracy (from online encyclopedia) |
| Planet
Drum Foundation ("a voice for bioregional sustainability,
education, and culture") |
| Cooperatives
and Microenterprise Projects are Successful in the Philippines |
| Decentralization
(from online encyclopedia) |
| An
Overview of Decentralism by Kirkpatrick Sale |
| Beyond
Individualism and Centralization, by Dennis R. Fox |
| Cooperative
Economics--Movement for Beloved Community |
| Cooperative
/ Participatory Society vs. Socialist Society Debate (from Z
magazine) |
| The
Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin
Hahnel (online book) |
| Inclusive
Democracy and Participatory Economics, by Takis Fotopoulos |
| Democratic
Socialists of America |
| Rural
Cooperatives Center |
| National
Council of Farmer Cooperatives |
| National
Association of Housing Cooperatives |
| quotes
related to cooperatives |
| quotes
related to community |
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