This article discusses many of the factors contributing to the fiscal crisis at the local level in New York including historic decreases in federal and state revenue sharing, the imposition of a new property tax cap, the failure of New York to meaningfully address the subject of unfunded...

Within the broad agenda of economic development, we suggest a model of leadership production and selection which shows how the optimal number of people required to bridge the gap between actual and potential economic performance could be raised and selected into public office. The honesty and...

Introduction -- Part 1 -- Humanism and the cooperative enterprise – theoretical foundations -- Parsing dignity for organizations -- Cooperative governance in context -- Part 2 -- Humanism and democracy in worker cooperatives -- Democratic cooperative governance: understanding the roles of the...