Showing posts with label co-operatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label co-operatives. Show all posts
2 December 2013

Smile: It's a Co-operative Bank

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It's been a challenging few weeks for those of us who hold an ideology to the left of the political spectrum. I don't know whether...
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28 April 2013

Solidarity Economy in Brazil

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One of our most stimulating meetings during the Latin American tour was at the social economy incubator (ITCP: Incubadora Tecnologica de Co-...
28 March 2013

Ecuador Leads the World

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I first heard of the exciting developments in the Ecuadorian economy through my investigations of the proposal for a citizens' audi...
18 February 2013

Co-operative Basics

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How disappointing it was to hear that the Co-operative had withdrawn products containing horsemeat that had been on sale in their stores. ...
11 September 2012

Co-operative History Tour

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Radio 4's Farming Today recently focused on the role co-operatives might play in supporting the incomes of farmers, especially dairy f...
24 August 2012

University Rent-Seeking: This Time It's Personal

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As a university professor who is also the mother of an 18-year-old daughter, I am experiencing the anxiety of the university admissions sea...
14 August 2012

It's the Green Economy, Stupid!

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It is widely agreed that the Rio +20 conference was a disastrous failure. What it proved most convincingly is that the people of the world...
1 February 2012

Move Your Money!

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At last - something you can actually do to show your revulsion against the destructive behaviour of bankers and financial engineers. Today t...
7 September 2011

Co-operative Enterprises Build a Better World

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Here's an image I hope you are going to see a lot more of during the next year and a half. The UN has designated 2012 as the Year of Co-...
6 July 2011

University Futures

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The hiatus in posts was caused by a brief trip to Cambridge to see my son graduate. The ceremony was typically bizarre in a way only Oxbridg...
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28 June 2011

Wales: A Co-operative Nation?

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Since I'm a bit short of time I thought I would share a short speech I gave earlier today at a meeting in Cardiff Bay for the Assembly C...
21 June 2011

Co-operation and the Wealth of Nations

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John Restakis, Executive Director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association, is on a lecture tour of the UK as part of the events to...
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31 December 2010

Answers Still Blowing in the Wind

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Technical reports about wind-power present a classic picture of statisticians dealing with the unpredictable. Aside from a helpful opening s...
11 August 2010

British Broadcasting Co-operative

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There is something intensely depressing about the way Labour politicians seem so much more comfortable in opposition. As though they collude...
24 April 2010

Putting Capitalism in its Place

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Canvassing is always a salutary experience since it teaches you that people are far smarter than the pundits give them credit for. This remi...
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15 February 2010

The Tories: Good for Your Health?

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In his inept and inarticulate way, George Osborne is doing his best to portray the Tories as the public sector's friend. Nurses and teac...
11 September 2009

Extraction of Value(s)

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Two reports are published today that are implicitly linked, and yet I wonder how many media commentators will make that link explicit? The f...
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5 September 2009

Labour or Ownership

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I had an interesting time yesterday, revealing myself at the conference of the UK Society for Co-operative Studies (of which I am an Executi...
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25 July 2009

Wind Power is Our Mutual Friend

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Bob Crow, whose RMT union is representing the workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, asks with understandab...
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17 July 2009

Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism That Wouldn't Frighten Your Grandmother

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It appears that the salesmen of capitalism have not been entirely successful. Despite the many years of propaganda we have not abandoned car...
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