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...

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...

This report has been written in the framework of the EU-funded research project “Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives”. This project was commissioned by the European Commission DG Agriculture and Rural Development, and carried out in 2011 and 2012 by a large consortium of researchers from...