This week, Luis Razeto takes on the concept of the market and attempts to provide a reformulation that is more suitable for the understanding of co-ops and the cooperative movement, in chapter 15 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy.
Then, Marie J. Bouchard gives a presentation and answers questions on the current state of social and solidarity economy research, in her address to the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives for the 11th Annual MacPherson Talk.
Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 15
by Luis Razeto Migliaro; translated by Matt Noyes
The market does not present itself solely as the organization of exchange relations between business owners and consumers, nor simply as the “mechanism” by which resources are allocated, revenues distributed, and economic decisions coordinated. Rather, and more concretely, it appears as a complex system of interrelations and relations of force among all the individual and collective subjects...that occupy different places in the social-economic structure.Â
Social and Solidarity Economy Research: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
by Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
The 11th Annual MacPherson Talk featured Dr. Marie J. Bouchard—whose distinguished career has significantly shaped the fields of social and solidarity economy (SSE) research and social innovation and co-operative studies—sharing observations concerning the state of scientific research on the SSE and suggesting how research could contribute to consolidating and shoring up the SSE field.Â
Worker Co-op Wraith Games Celebrates 20 Years
Wraith Games — 2025 is wrapping up and as many of you know, not only is it the UN’s “International Year of the Co-op” but it’s also Wraith’s 20th anniversary! 20 years. Wow. Twenty… Years... It hardly seems real...
US credit unions welcome restored federal funding for CDFIs
Co-op News —Credit unions in the US have welcomed the news that lawmakers are planning to appropriate $324m for the federal Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund for the coming financial year. This is a welcome reversal for the sector after the fund, which supports credit unions serving low-income and underserved areas through grants, certifications, and access to capital, was axed during last year’s federal shutdown, sparking an outcry from the credit union movement...
Rethinking Home Care: New Models to Sustain Aging in Place
Governing — But the nation will need about 740,000 additional home care workers over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and recruiting them won’t be easy. Costs to consumers are high — the median hourly rate for a home health aide in 2024 was $34, the annual Genworth/CareScout survey shows, with big geographic variations. But an aide’s median hourly wage was less than $17...
Grace Corbin on Leading Casa Nueva's Worker-Owned Cooperative Restaurant
Inspired Stories Podcast (YouTube) — In this inspiring episode, Grace Corbin, co-owner and vice president of the board of directors at Casa Nueva in Athens, Ohio, shares her remarkable journey from getting hired at age 15 when restaurant owner responded "when can you start?" to managing Bagel Street Deli's legendary Picklefest (13 pickles in 10 minutes record), then joining Athens' worker-owned cooperative Mexican restaurant in 2009...
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