The greater resilience of cooperatives in the crisis

Workshop
Saturday, 12.09.
14:30
1h 30min
MA850
Cooperation and Self-organization
Housing and common spaces
Money and Finances

This presentation is grounded on the research published in the book Capital and the Debt Trap - learning from cooperatives in the global crisis by Sanchez Bajo & Roelants.
The book provides an explanation of the global crisis since 2007 and why cooperatives have been showing a relatively higher degree of resilience compared to other types of enterprises, generating genuine value and general wealth in a sustainable manner.
As a call for further debate and engagement, a debt trap is similar to an ecological overshoot, displaying a systemic trajectory that is no longer sustainable, actually leading to systemic failure. Can we imagine another trajectory and discuss new answers to generate genuine value leading to general and common wealth sustainably?
www.capital-and-the-debt-trap.com

Speaker: 
Claudia Sanchez Bajo & Co-Author Bruno Roelants
Prof Dr Claudia Sanchez Bajo - Inaugural Chair in Cooperative Enterprises, Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, until February 2015. Now at the IUSS University of Pavia, Italy
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