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Time To End The Privileging Of For-Profit Banks
If there is one question I am asked often, it’s this: “If co-ops are so great, why aren’t there more co-ops?” It’s a good question. My knee jerk reaction is to say “there ARE a lot of co-ops! How do...
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Thinking On Dependency: The Problem Of Government-Corporate Health Insurance
Imagine if you will a system build so rock solid that we could be comfortable knowing that no matter who is elected, the system will sustain itself. Imagine if you will such a system that cannot be...
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My Local Cooperative Economy
Matt’s recent blog post on his local cooperative economy inspired me to write about my own local cooperative economy. Now, one could call this lazy blogging -I mean it was Matt’s idea, originally- but...
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Why The “Cooperative Commonwealth”?
The collapse of the financial industry, the influence of corporate money over our political process, and the failure of government has made clear: when we task others with doing for ourselves, we lose...
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Lin Ostrom Listed On Time’s 100 Most Influential List
You know how they call economics the dismal science? I guess “they” ain’t familiar with Elinor Ostrom (if you don’t know of Ostrom’s work, I would highly recommend you read this brief biography, a...
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Community Bootstrapping
In my last blog post, I touched on a sample of the sheer breadth of the cooperative economy in central Illinois. The region has a growing coop grocery sector, a stable electric coop industry, robust...
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