This study analysed co-operative members’ willingness to pay (WTP) for health insurance. The social capital theory was adopted to analyse the mediation role of trust issues on other variables determining co-operative members’ WTP for health insurance. A single Contingent Valuation Method...

This article focuses on the key question for co-operatives and mutuals of whether they can continue to be genuine member-owned and controlled businesses once they become very large. After providing a commentary on current attempts to revitalise member democracy in the UK consumer co-operative...

Wine production in Germany has a tradition of more than 200 years in each of the 13 German quality wine-growing regions. Even today mall grape growers dominate the industry. As a result, most of the viticulturists are members of cooperatives. Our observation that grape growers still turn to wine...

Vizsgálataimban négy közép-szigetközi település (Ãsványráró, Hédervár, Darnózseli, Püski) mezőgazdasági szövetkezeti állattenyésztését és az állati ter-mék előállításra vonatkozó jellemzőit elemeztem 1990-től 2006-ig. Megállapítot-tam, hogy az egész országot...

This paper considers the influence of Eugen Dühring’s 1876 model of economic communes on the development of a peculiar non-Marxian stream of market socialist models, characterized by the fact that the self-managed production units are open. In the 1934 Breit and Lange model of market...