Robin Murray is an industrial economist working principally on social innovation. He has been involved in fair trade for twenty-five years, also in environmental partnerships working in the fields of waste, energy, transport, food and health.
In the age of failing globalisation, cooperatives are the microcosms of a more stable and resilient economy. (A guest off-print from www.resurgence.org )
The last thirty years has seen the re-emergence of a civil economic challenge, side by side with the advance of globalisation, as a distinct strand in the development of global civil society. Don’t underestimate its longterm significance in the glacial shifts now taking place in the world economy.