The cooperative movement: globalization from below/
Richard C. Williams; with preface by George Cheney
- England: Ashgate, 2007.
- 230 p.
History and theory of cooperation -- History and theory of the cooperative movement -- Comparing cooperation, competition, and individual effort -- The standard economic model and globalization -- Cooperative case studies -- Cooperation and microfinance in Southeast Asia and Oceania -- The cooperative movement in India -- Mondragón : the Basque cooperative experience -- Cooperatives in Latin America -- Puerto Rico's cooperative effort -- Analysis and implications for the future -- What makes a cooperative work? -- The blueprint : globalization from below -- Appendix A : credit union statistics -- Appendix B : measuring effect size -- Appendix C : the IMF "merged model" -- Appendix D : interviews : protocol and summary data