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DESCRIPTION:Cooperative economics are an alternative to both capitalism with its 
 inexorable inequality and existing models of state socialism and central 
 planning. Experience with worker-owned cooperatives around the world has 
 shown that worker participation in decision-making can work, hierarchy is 
 substantially reduced but not eliminated, worker satisfaction is 
 qualitatively enhanced, and labor productivity and innovation can be 
 competitive with capitalist enterprises. But can worker-owned cooperatives 
 be scaled up to achieve economies of scale? What are the different models 
 of cooperatives? What can we learn from cooperative bubbles like Tahrir 
 Square, Occupy, Gezi Park, Rojava, Burning Man, or sharing economies? How 
 do we understand the relations of production in worker-owned cooperatives 
 and their relations of exchange? Can we imagine a global economic system 
 dominated by cooperative economics?\n\nOur speaker, Sharat G. Lin, PhD,  is 
 research fellow with Human Agenda and the Initiative for Equality. He 
 writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, social 
 movements, and public health. He has studied producer-owned cooperatives in 
 Spain, Cuba, Venezuela, India, and the U.S. He has observed first-hand many 
 temporary experiments in self-organization as well as state enterprises in 
 both capitalist, socialist, and hybrid states.\n\n************ ************ 
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SUMMARY:Cooperative Economics
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