Building alternatives beyond capital / Julio C. Gambina and Gabriela Roffinelli -- The social and solidarity economy in Latin America / Henry Veltmeyer -- New co-operativism in Latin America : implications for Cuba / Marcelo Vieta -- The new guidelines : economic changes and its political and...

Human enterprise and social systems of organizing economic activity are predominantly based either on competitive or cooperative principles. Despite the dominance of competitive principles in contemporary capitalism, historically these principles manifested in many different combinations in...

Monetary restraint in Poland does not operate in the expected manner under the conditions of predominant state ownership of both banks and industrial enterprises. With effective owners' control being prohibitively costly in the state-owned firms, "nobody's" banks continue their old lending...

Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical ("big bang") reforms at the...